Salary Scoop

A new Web site lets you scope out companies before you apply.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall of a prospective employer's office. Aptly named Glassdoor.com, founded by the brains behind popular home-valuation Web site Zillow.com, gives you a firsthand peek at companies and how well they pay. Employees submit reviews along with salary details. To gain access, you must help build the site's database by anonymously submitting your own job info.

Glassdoor offers more insight into jobs than competing sites do. Since its June debut, the site has collected reviews or salary data for more than 11,000 companies.

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