Levels.fyi MCP: salary benchmarks and offers in your AI app

Benchmark pay, weigh a job offer and search open roles from your AI app, using Levels.fyi's salary, level and job data from more than 1 million pay reports. ContextGate connects Levels.fyi's MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, and Activity records each compensation lookup, which helps when a hiring team is checking its bands.

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Connect Levels.fyi to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

  1. 1Click Connect Levels.fyi free and sign in to Levels.fyi.
  2. 2All tools are on after you connect, and you'll see the list then. They look up pay and jobs, so keep the ones you use and switch off job search if you only want compensation data.
  3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
  4. 4Ask your AI app how a senior engineer offer compares with Levels.fyi data for that company and level, then open Activity to see the call.

Compensation questions for Claude or ChatGPT

  • Benchmark pay for a title, level and location.
  • Evaluate an offer against reported pay at that company and level.
  • Compare career levels across companies before you switch jobs.
  • Search open jobs from the same chat.

Pay research you can trace

  • A policy can hide personal data, such as a candidate's name, when a recruiter checks an offer.
  • Activity records each salary lookup.
  • Switch off job search and keep the pay data, or the other way round.

What you get with Levels.fyi and ContextGate

  • Your AI apps can use Levels.fyiClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Levels.fyi through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
  • You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Levels.fyi tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
  • Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Levels.fyi tools

Levels.fyi's own MCP server shows its tools once you sign in. When you connect it, they are listed and synced in your workspace.