This page covers what happens to data when you use tradesalaries.org: the wage calculators, the apprentice and license-hour tools, and the pages around them.
Information you enter in calculators
Every calculator here, from take-home pay to the apprentice ladder, runs in your browser. Your wage, hours and overtime never reach our server. The “copy link” button writes your inputs into the page address so you can send a result to someone; nothing is saved unless you share that link.
Server and security logs
Cloudflare hosts the site and, like any host, handles IP addresses, browser details and requested pages to serve them and block abuse. Its privacy policy applies to that processing.
Usage measurement (Google Analytics)
Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC) tells us in aggregate which pages are read, roughly which country visits come from, what kind of device is used, and when a calculator produces a first result or a result link is copied (the event carries the tool’s name, never the numbers you entered). We send no names or email addresses and build no profile of any visitor.
Advertising and cookies
Ads on Trade Salaries are served by Google AdSense.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info.
- Learn more in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, a Google-certified consent message asks before any personalized ads or non-essential cookies are used, and its privacy settings link lets you change that choice later.
Your rights
Depending on where you live (GDPR, UK GDPR, KVKK, or U.S. state laws such as the CCPA), you may be able to access, correct or delete personal data and object to some processing. We keep no accounts or visitor profiles, so in practice there is little for us to hand over; for ad data, Google’s tools above are the place to go. Anything else, write to us.
Children
Trade Salaries is written for working tradespeople, apprentices and high school or college students weighing a trade; it is not aimed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.
Contact
Privacy questions: contact@tradesalaries.org.