Legal Disclaimer
The Bottom Line
The Work State publishes pay figures and career articles for information only. We are not financial advisors, lawyers or recruiters, and we place nobody in a job. Decisions you make on the basis of anything here are your own.
No Professional Career or Legal Advice
Everything published on The Work State — the Insights articles, the career guides and the pay analysis — is general information, not advice about your situation. We are not your career counselor, your employment lawyer, your recruiter or your HR representative, and nothing here creates that relationship. Before a decision that affects your income or your contract, talk to someone licensed to advise you on it.
Pay Figures and How They Age
Wage figures come from one of two places, and each article says which. Most are federal data — chiefly the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics — with the release named in the text. The rest are pay ranges as advertised by employers in a sample of listings we compiled for that analysis, and those articles say so. Those are published medians and percentiles, not offers. What an employer actually pays depends on their budget, your experience, the location and the market at the time.
Federal wage data is revised on an annual cycle, and projections change with it. When a release supersedes one we have cited, we update the figures in the affected articles and say which release the new numbers come from. We cannot guarantee that every figure on the site reflects the most recent revision at the moment you read it, and we take no responsibility for a gap between a published estimate and an actual offer. Read our editorial standards for how the sourcing works.
Advertising, Affiliates and Sponsored Content
The site carries display advertising, which is how it stays free to read. Beyond that: we run no affiliate links and no sponsored posts. Every outbound link in our articles points to a primary source — a federal agency, a regulator, a professional body or the employer itself — and we earn nothing if you follow one. If that ever changes, this section will say so and the affected content will be labeled.
The rule behind it: employers pay us nothing to appear here, and no article, pay figure or assessment on this site has been paid for, sold or arranged. Advertising is sold against the site as a whole and never against a particular article.
No Guarantee of Employment Outcomes
Reading this site or applying to a role you found here guarantees you nothing: not an interview, not an offer, not a career move. Hiring is controlled entirely by the employer. We are a place to find and understand openings, and we take no responsibility for how your search turns out.
Fair Use and External References
Our articles name companies and quote from job postings, corporate statements and public filings. That is commentary and reporting, and it relies on fair use. The Work State is independent and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any employer named on the site. Trademarks belong to their owners.
Copyright: the text we write is our copyright. Quote it with attribution and a link; do not republish it wholesale.
Corrections and Employer Inquiries
If you represent a company covered here and something we published is factually wrong — a pay range, a requirement, a location, a description of the role — write to us and we will check it. Point us at the source that settles it: your own posting, a filing, a published policy. Where we got it wrong, we correct the page and we do not hide that we did.
What we will not do is remove an accurate statement because it is unflattering. An article that reports what a posting actually says, or what federal data actually shows, stays up. Disagreement with an assessment is not the same as a factual error, and we will tell you which one we think we are looking at.
Integration Clause: This Legal Disclaimer is governed by and explicitly incorporated into our overarching Terms of Service.
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