VetDB is a veteran-to-veteran salary transparency platform that collects and shares real compensation data from over 500 veterans across 150+ companies. Users anonymously submit their civilian job information to unlock insights from peers, enabling data-driven career planning and salary negotiation. The platform reports that members earn an average of $136,104 within four years of separation, with data from top employers like Anduril, Palantir, Cisco, and Amazon.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Veterans transitioning to civilian careers often lack access to reliable, role-specific salary data, leaving them at a disadvantage when negotiating compensation or planning career moves. Traditional job boards and recruiter-driven platforms provide biased or incomplete information, making it difficult to benchmark offers against real market rates.
Solution
VetDB is a community-driven salary transparency platform that aggregates anonymous compensation data from veterans working across a wide range of industries and companies. Users submit their own civilian job details—including role, company, and pay—and in return gain access to aggregated insights from peers who have already navigated the same transition. The platform filters out recruiter noise and marketing fluff, presenting raw, factual data points that veterans can use to compare offers, plan career growth, and negotiate with confidence. By leveraging a growing dataset of 500+ veterans across 150+ companies, VetDB provides a continuously improving benchmark for what veterans actually earn in the civilian workforce.
Target Audience
Primary users are military veterans who have separated or are preparing to separate from service and are seeking civilian employment, as well as those actively negotiating salaries or planning long-term career transitions.
Features
- Anonymous salary submission and aggregation system that protects user privacy while building a shared data pool
- Searchable database of compensation insights across 150+ companies, including top employers like Anduril, Palantir, Cisco, and Amazon
- Peer-comparison tools that let users benchmark their salary against veterans with similar roles, experience levels, and separation timelines
- Data-driven career planning resources that highlight earning potential at different stages post-military, with members averaging $136,104 within four years of separation
- Community-driven model where access to insights is unlocked by contributing one's own data, ensuring ongoing data freshness and relevance