getSalary: Retrieve salary values (if present) from the Indeed API.

In dashee87/jobbR: R wrapper for the Indeed API

Description

Salary figures are not explicity returned by the Indeed API (see jobSearch and jobkeySearch). getSalary tries to overcome this by scraping any salary figures from the job description page (the results.url column from the jobSearch or jobkeySearch output). Note that it's quite common for job descriptions to not include any salary data, which will return NA.

Usage

getSalary(url, currency = c("USD", "GBP", "EUR"))

Arguments

url	(string). The url of the job description page. Required. No default.
currency	(string). Currency of the salary. The default is USD ($). Currently, the only supported currencies are USD, GBP and EUR.

Value

A dataframe is returned, consisting of: status: Job status (contract, permanent, temporary); period: Salary period (day, week, month, year); currency: The currency passed as an argument; minSal: If a range is detected (e.g. $40,000 - $60,000), then this is the lower value. If no range is dectected, then minSal and maxSal will equal this value; maxSal: If a range is detected (e.g. $40,000 - $60,000), then this is the higher value. If no range is dectected, then minSal and maxSal will equal this value.

Examples

## Not run: 
# search for data scientist jobs in Dublin, Ireland (10 jobs returned)
jobs <- searchJobs(publisher="123445678", query="data+scientist",
                   country = "ie", location = "dublin")

# retrieve salary for the first job posted
getSalary(jobs$results.url[1],"GBP")

# retrieve salary for all jobs
lapply(jobs$results.url,function(x){getSalary(x,"GBP")})


## End(Not run)

dashee87/jobbR documentation built on May 14, 2019, 6:12 p.m.