When it comes to job interviews, the mention of salaries will inevitably come up. If you’re reluctant and unsure about what to ask for on a particular position, there are plenty of job sites out there with a plethora of information about jobs and their base salaries. It helps to be prepared to negotiate your salary with an idea of what most people initially pay for the position you’re interviewing for.

A quick Google search on salaries and jobs can take you to various websites that provide job-seekers ample information on company information. A number of them even display further details past just the average base salary! So take a look at the nifty sites that will help you in deciding your base salary.

Salary.com – Based in Needham, Massachusetts, the company is a well-known source for salary searches, with a “salary wizard” displayed on the home page. The site includes details about base salaries, bonuses, and incentive pay for numerous careers, according to the data collected from employer surveys. By simply typing the job title and zip code of the prospective position, you’ll instantly be taken to a salary range graph.

PayScale.com – This Seattle-based company boasts 4 million visitors a month, with 16 million user-submitted profiles. The large database of job information provides data for users looking for specific data on individual companies. PayScale.com typically gets its salary information from users who exchange them for access to the rest of the database.

Glassdoor.com – Another one working on information exchange, the site bases its data from 1 million user reports, with a database of over 80,000 companies domestically and internationally. Users can briefly receive sample data after filling out questionnaires about recent or current jobs. Glassdoor.com also provides written reviews of what it’s like working at different companies and what to expect in a particular interview.

Indeed.com – Indeed.com pulls salary information from job listings available. All of the data provided is free of charge to all users. Obtaining salary information is as quick as clicking the “salaries” button on the upper left-hand corner of the home page.

Vault.com – An “online career intelligence resource,” the site provides job-seekers with job listings as well as advice on resume-writing. The NYC-based company retrieves salary information from the company’s human resources department, since the staff at Vault.com believes human resources managers are most reliable when it comes to providing the hard facts. Information in Vault.com is not free, however; access costs $15 a month or $120 a year. Over 900 colleges and universities (including Harvard Business School and the University of Chicago) provide free Vault access to students.

Bureau of Labor Statistics – If all else, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has numerous salary information derived from employer surveys. The site provides job-seekers with salary information for a range of professions within locations across the country. The data was derived from employer survey data.