# A third call this salary fair pay for their job

Canonical page: https://data.verasight.io/money/a-third-call-this-salary-fair-pay-for-their-job/

> Indexed question in Money & Finance.

## Reading

A $62,000 salary strikes about a third of Americans (31%) as fair pay for their current job, according to a Verasight survey conducted Aug. 20-25, 2025.

Nearly a quarter (24%) are not employed. The remaining verdicts scatter across degrees of under- and overpayment, and the harshest leads them: 11% call $62,000 extreme underpayment.

## Topline

If you were paid each of the following for your current job, would you consider that to be: - $62,000

A third call this salary fair pay for their job.

- Fair pay: 30.6%
- I am not employed: 24.0%
- Extremely unfair underpayment: 11.4%
- Slightly unfair underpayment: 8.4%
- Somewhat unfair underpayment: 7.2%
- Very unfair underpayment: 5.3%
- Slightly unfair overpayment: 5.2%
- Somewhat unfair overpayment: 4.0%
- Very unfair overpayment: 2.0%
- Extremely unfair overpayment: 1.9%

## Methodology

- Mode: Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting
- Population: United States adults
- Field dates: 2025-08-20 → 2025-08-25
- Base (unweighted): 1,000
- Margin of error: +/- 3.1%
- Module: ASA Omnibus Survey
- Sponsor: Verasight
- Weight variable: weight
- Weighting targets: age, race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, region, metropolitan status

## Source

- Canonical question URL: [https://reports.verasight.io/r/asa-2025#perceived-fairness-of-various-incomes](https://reports.verasight.io/r/asa-2025#perceived-fairness-of-various-incomes)

## Citation

ASA Omnibus Survey, fielded August 20-25, 2025, N=1,000 United States adults, +/- 3.1%.

Canonical question URL: [https://reports.verasight.io/r/asa-2025#perceived-fairness-of-various-incomes](https://reports.verasight.io/r/asa-2025#perceived-fairness-of-various-incomes)