# Campus · TrustBand Watch

> Watch is $60 a year. A school inbox skips the invoice.

The ledger at https://trustband.app stays free to read. Watch is the mail desk:

- A job lands on a company you marked
- Typical reprints on a watched seat (base and typical stay separate)
- Monday landscape — cash vs paper that week
- Hiring-trend letter — labs vs shops vs enterprise AE

Students confirm a school inbox (.edu, .ac.uk, .edu.au, uwaterloo.ca, utoronto.ca, ubc.ca, mcgill.ca). Alumni addresses do not count. Re-confirm each year.

Career offices: put https://trustband.app/campus next to Levels.fyi on salary-research pages. The four letters below are what students receive.

## Sample letters

### Grafana Labs Account Executive is hiring on the book

Hiring posts land on the company board, then Watch mails the seats you marked. Not an ATS scrape.

- Grafana Labs Account Executive typical is $301k. Base $152k.
- $420M ARR · +42% · LGTM landing in platform orgs
- A student reading this should still check cash share before they argue the headline.

### Typical on Google Software Engineer reprints at $312k

Watch mails when the band itself reprints — not when a tweet does.

- Base $185k. Typical $312k. Cash share 59%.
- Paper is not rent. A new-grad should read cash share next to typical.

### Monday landscape — cash still sits at the shops

A new-grad should read cash share before they argue typical. Paper is not rent.

- Cash leaders: Form Energy 100%, Commonwealth Fusion 95%, Path Robotics 89%, Kraken 87%.
- Paper: Cursor 31%, OpenAI 41%, Anthropic 42%.
- AE OTE: OpenAI $360k, Anthropic $340k, Harvey $328k.

### Hiring-trend letter — labs reprint paper, shops pay rent

Labs vs shops vs enterprise AE. Written like the desk, not like a newsletter product.

- Jane Street SWE typical $525k, 48% cash. Netflix $400k, 82% cash. Shops pay rent.
- OpenAI SWE typical $653k (41% cash). Anthropic $591k (42%). Cursor $850k (31%). Labs reprint paper.
- Path Robotics still leads cash-as-share. Enterprise AE: OpenAI $360k OTE, Anthropic $340k. Levels will show the headline. This letter shows whether you can spend it.


Cite:

- https://trustband.app/campus — this desk
- https://trustband.app/check — check an offer
- https://trustband.app/ranks/cash — who pays cash
- https://trustband.app/methodology — how a tick is verified
- https://trustband.app/vs/levels — how we differ from Levels.fyi

Two-line blurb: TrustBand — verified US tech pay by company and role. Work-email ticks rank first. Watch is $60/year, free on a school inbox.