Last updated: October 31, 2026. Document version: terms-2026-10-31-fd972847addb43f4.
Groundwork is operated by Nuphase Solutions.
Groundwork generates a salary-benchmark report from public U.S. government wage data (Department of Labor LCA disclosure filings, Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS survey data, and other public sources listed in the report itself). It's informational only — not legal, immigration, tax, or financial advice, and not a guarantee of what any employer will offer or agree to. Weekly monitoring (section 3A) is a separate paid service with its own limits; it reports layoff notices, not wages.
We source every figure from public records and label sample sizes and approximations directly on the report. We don't guarantee completeness or accuracy of the underlying government data, and a small sample size can make an estimate unreliable even when it's presented — the report says so when that's the case. Use your own judgment alongside it.
Every browser's first report unlocks free. After that, a report unlocks by either a one-time single-report purchase or a multi-report pack; pack credits don't expire and can be used on any future search from the same browser. Payments are processed by Stripe — we never see or store your full card details.
Refunds: if a report was mismatched or clearly wrong due to a fault in the service, contact us and we'll make it right. Otherwise, because a report is generated and delivered instantly on payment, purchases are non-refundable once the full report has been unlocked.
Weekly monitoring costs US$9, paid once through Stripe. It gives you 90 days of access, counted from the moment our site verifies and records your payment (this can be a little after the payment itself), with up to five employers on your watchlist (each with a US-state filter, which is required for an employer that also has territory notices) and a weekly check. It never renews on its own. You can buy again once your access has ended. Before you pay you verify the email address that receives the briefs.
What a brief is. Your first check of an employer sets a starting point and lists the records held at that time; it compares nothing. Later checks list what changed since your last saved check in the WARN layoff notices that state agencies publish, as the open WARN Notice Register collects them and as we import them. Agency publication and our imports decide when a notice can appear. A brief names no affected roles and says nothing about job openings. A brief with no new records says nothing about how secure any job is. A brief is informational and is not legal, immigration, employment or financial advice.
When a check cannot be completed. If our source data is out of date or unavailable, or an employer's records cannot be compared reliably, the saved brief says so and keeps the earlier successful comparison. Changes during that gap remain unknown. After a gap or a lapse in access you choose whether to start a new comparison baseline; your earlier briefs stay available.
Emails. A brief is emailed only while your paid-email setting is on, and an email may be withheld or held (see below); the saved brief on your private page is made either way. You can stop the paid monitoring emails from your watchlist or from the link in a brief. Stopping them leaves your access and saved briefs in place and does not change your free alerts. If we cannot confirm that a brief email was handed to our email delivery service, we hold that brief for review and do not send it again automatically. The saved brief on your private page is unaffected.
Refunds. To ask for a refund, email us at the address in section 8. The site owner issues refunds on request; none is made automatically. We will refund the US$9 if you ask within 14 days of payment and none of your watched employers has had a usable first check in that time. We will also refund it if two consecutive weekly checks find every one of your watched employers unavailable because of our data service and you ask within 30 days of the second unavailable check. A partial refund leaves your remaining access in place. A full refund ends the access it paid for, and time bought in a separate purchase stays. If a payment is disputed, the access it paid for stops while the dispute is open. If Stripe resolves the dispute in our favour and returns the funds to us, we restore the unused part of that access once; a dispute that closes in the customer's favour does not restore access.
Your data. What we keep, how to ask for erasure, and what we keep afterwards are described in the Privacy Policy.
Reports are for your own personal use in evaluating a job or negotiation. Please don't scrape, systematically re-download, or resell the underlying data or reports. The same applies to weekly monitoring briefs.
Groundwork is provided "as is." To the extent permitted by law, Nuphase Solutions isn't liable for decisions made based on a report, or for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from using the service. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid for the report or the weekly monitoring purchase in question.
We may update these terms as the product changes; the "last updated" date above will reflect the latest version.
These terms are governed by the laws of Australia, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Nuphase Solutions is an Australian business; Groundwork's audience and pricing are U.S.-focused, but disputes are handled under the law of the business's home jurisdiction, consistent with how Groundwork is operated.
Questions, support requests, or legal notices: sean.manning@nuphase.tech.
Wage data: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC LCA Disclosure Data and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS. LCA filings reflect sponsored-worker wage offers, which skew toward mid-large employers and specific occupations — treat any estimate built from a small sample cautiously. Informational only; not legal, immigration, or financial advice.