Legal · 02 September 2026
Privacy Policy
How mysalary.nz handles the information you share — kept as plain and honest as the salary data itself.
In short
mysalary.nz is a salary transparency site. People share what they're paid anonymously — no account, name, or email address is ever required to contribute or browse. We publish that data in aggregated and individual-but-anonymous form so you can see what people in your role actually earn, and we use no advertising trackers and no analytics scripts.
Who we are
We are the team behind mysalary.nz (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what information we handle, why, and your rights under the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020.
Questions or requests about your privacy can be sent to privacy@mysalary.nz.
What we collect
Salary submissions (the core of the site). When you use our salary form you can choose to share:
- Job title
- Company (optional — many people choose “undisclosed”)
- Category, location, and experience level
- Employment type (full-time, part-time, contractor)
- Base salary, bonus, and any perks (e.g. health insurance, WFH)
We deliberately do not ask for your name, email address, phone number, or any other identifier. A submission is a standalone entry with no direct link back to you.
Technical data. Like most websites, web servers record routine technical logs (e.g. IP address, browser type, pages viewed) to operate and secure the service. We don't use this to identify individual visitors.
How we use salary submissions
- To publish salary data. Approved submissions appear on public role pages, where they're aggregated into medians, percentiles, experience and location breakdowns, and listed as individual (still anonymous) entries. This is the entire point of the site.
- To write job descriptions. Some role pages include an automatically written overview. This is generated from the job title alone — it never involves your salary, location, or any personal details you submitted.
- To moderate the site. Submissions are reviewed by an administrator before going live. If a submission is rejected, that job title is prevented from being re-submitted to protect data quality.
Cookies
We use a small number of cookies, all first-party:
- Session cookie (strictly necessary). A short-lived cookie that powers the submission flow — for example carrying your answers to the “confirm your entry” step and protecting the form from spam. It does not identify you.
salary_draft(convenience). While you fill in the salary form we save your in-progress answers to this cookie (valid up to 8 hours) so you don't lose them on an accidental refresh. It's deleted once your submission is completed or confirmed.
Cookies can be cleared at any time in your browser settings without affecting the site, though you may lose an in-progress draft.
Third parties
- Description service — supplies the automatically written overview shown on some role pages, generated from the job title alone (see above).
- Google Fonts & Font Awesome CDNs — serve the fonts and icons used to render the site. Loading these means your browser contacts their servers; per their own policies they may log your IP address.
We don't work with ad networks, advertisers, or third-party analytics providers.
Where and how long we keep data
Data is stored in a database on our managed server. We keep salary submissions for as long as the site operates, since removing them would distort the published statistics.
Ask us and we'll remove a specific submission, or (if you believe a submission relates to you) anonymise the company and identifying details. Please get in touch at privacy@mysalary.nz and we'll do our best to help — although because submissions are anonymous, we may not always be able to locate the exact entry you mean.
Your rights
The Privacy Act 2020 gives you rights to access and correct personal information we hold about you. To exercise these, or to complain about our handling of your information, email privacy@mysalary.nz. You may also contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (www.privacy.org.nz).
Security
We take reasonable measures to protect the data we hold — submissions are written to the database only after passing our spam checks, the site is served over HTTPS, and direct access to the data requires an authenticated administrator login. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, but we work to protect your data as best we can.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. If we make changes, the “Last updated” date at the top of this page will change, and significant changes will be called out on the homepage.