How Págame computes your number.

Págame tells you two different things, and the gap between them is where negotiations are lost. Your target is what to ask for. Your Power Score is whether you’re in a position to insist on it — and what to build first if you aren’t. Knowing you’re underpaid and being ready to fix it are not the same thing: you can have an airtight case and still ask too early, too quietly, with nothing to point at.

Every factor in it is yours to change, most of them inside a week — so a low score is a to-do list ranked by what each item is worth, never a verdict on you. Leverage is built.

It is computed by the same rules as your number: a fixed, versioned formula, never AI, never your gender. It weighs three named factors — your pay position, your outside evidence (a live offer or an active search), and the strengths you’ve named. The confidence of the data stays where it belongs — shown with your number, never scored against you: how well the government sampled your metro is a fact about the data, not about your position. We publish the categories, not the internal weights; every score is stamped with the version that produced it.

Fully disclosed arithmetic: your yearly gap held constant over one, three, and five years. No growth assumptions, no forecast — a floor, because if your pay and the market both grow, the real cost compounds. It only appears when you’re below your market rate; we never invent a cost that isn’t in the data.