Editorial policy

This page says who is accountable for paycrunch.co, how a correction is handled, and how drafting assistance, affiliate links, and advertising are disclosed. The wage rules themselves — SOC codes, the 500-employee floor, and the refresh clocks — are on the methodology page. If a job page disagrees with the methodology, the methodology wins until the job page is repaired.

Who is responsible

Matt runs PayCrunch as an independent publisher in San Diego. There is not a newsroom of unnamed editors. Correspondence about a wage, a SOC code, a playbook step, or this policy goes to matt@paycrunch.co. The mailing address is on the About page and the contact page.

Corrections

Write with the page URL and the figure or sentence you think is wrong. The check is against the source file named on the page (BLS OEWS, IRS published brackets, or the occupation record a PayCrunch estimate was derived from), not against a preference. A confirmed error is corrected on the page. The monthly date stamp is not itself a claim that every sentence was rewritten that month.

Wages and estimates

• A page mapped to a BLS occupation cites the OEWS release and prints the SOC code. Of the 1,008 records in the current table, 762 are treated as confident mappings (tier A).
• A title BLS does not publish as its own line is labelled a PayCrunch estimate, names the occupation the figure was derived from, and must not be quoted as a BLS number.
• The site does not invent a wage to fill a gap, and it does not rank a reader (“you are in the top 10%”).
• Nothing here is an offer of employment or a promise that a reader will earn the figure.

AI-assisted drafting

PayCrunch does not claim that every sentence is written by a person with no software assistance. Two different processes are in use, and they are not the same thing:

• The monthly job that moves “Last checked” and “Updated” stamps, and rebuilds BLS sections from the cached OEWS files, does not use a language model. Dates are not invented on a page that did not already carry that stamp.
• Playbooks and Career Intelligence notes may be drafted with assistance. Dollar amounts, URLs, and SOC codes are injected from that occupation’s fact pack after the draft. The draft is not allowed to invent a wage, a product link, or a classification code. A draft that fails a gate is not published. A missing playbook stays missing.

A playbook step is an editorial description of work in that occupation. It is not a guarantee of a raise, a job, or a wage.

Affiliate links

Some job pages include a gear block with links to Amazon. Those are affiliate links. PayCrunch participates in the Amazon Associates program and may earn a commission if you buy through them, at no extra cost to you. The associate tag is the one already printed on the link. Product identifiers are not invented, and a placeholder tracking ID is rejected. An affiliate link does not change the wage, the SOC code, or a playbook step.

Advertising and independence

Google AdSense (publisher ca-pub-4897630241601050) is how the site is meant to be supported once advertising is allowed to serve. Ad units are not currently filled, and empty advertisement boxes are hidden. When ads do serve, they will be labelled and kept out of the pay answer, the wage table, and the playbook. Ads do not choose a SOC code or a recommended step. PayCrunch is not affiliated with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the IRS, or any other agency.

What we will not publish

• A testimonial, review, or reader result we cannot verify.
• A statistic that is not on the cited source or computed from figures already on the site.
• A PayCrunch estimate presented as a BLS figure.
• A guaranteed outcome from using a tool named on a page.