What is Offer Analyzer?

Offer Analyzer is a tool that helps your job seekers figure out whether a job offer is competitive. When you turn it on, it appears on your career center homepage and in the Career Resources menu. Job seekers use it to enter the details of an offer—job title, location, salary, bonus, education, and experience—and get back a clear read on how that offer compares to the market: below average, competitive, or above average. They also see salary-range context, common benefits for that role, and practical negotiation tips. The goal is to help them make informed decisions and, when it makes sense, negotiate with confidence.

How it works

Here's the flow in a bit more detail so you can explain it to your team or members:

1. Job seeker opens Offer Analyzer — They land on the Offer Analyzer page from the homepage or Career Resources. They must be signed in as a job seeker.

2. They start an analysis — Clicking the main button opens a form (modal) where they enter:

• Job title — Either chosen from a dropdown (if you’ve limited titles—see below) or typed and selected from a searchable list.
• Location — City, state, or zip so we can compare to the right market.
• Salary — Annual base salary (required), annual bonus, and any extra compensation (e.g. stock bonus, commission, sign-on).
• About them — Education level and experience level (optional but improves the comparison.)

3. We compare to market data — Our system uses salary and benefits data (from job postings and candidate surveys) for that job title and location. We place their offer into one of three buckets: below market, competitive (at market), or above market.

4. They see the result — The results page shows where their offer sits (with a short explanation), a salary range/graph for that role in that location, the most common benefits for the job title, and negotiation tips tailored to their result. We also link out to the Career Guide for that job title when available.

If you’ve limited Offer Analyzer to members only, non-members who try to use it see a clear message that the tool is for members and how they can learn about membership—no silent redirects.

Your options: turning Offer Analyzer on and who can use it

You control Offer Analyzer from Smartway → Settings → Career Tools. There are several settings.

1. Use Offer Analyzer

What it does: This is the main on/off switch. When it’s on, Offer Analyzer is available to job seekers and is linked from the homepage and the Career Resources menu. When it’s off, the tool is hidden and not linked anywhere.

When to use it: Turn it on when you want to offer salary and offer evaluation as part of your career center. Leave it off if you don’t use that feature.