# Pay Bands MCP Server

What a role really pays, including markets where the employer publishes no range.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## At a glance

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp)

**GitHub popularity:** 1 stars on [dheerajjha/payband-mcp](dheerajjha/payband-mcp), recorded 2026-09-28.

## Status

Pod has not dialled Pay Bands yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `payband-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**14 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

### Most discussed

### Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple self-hosted careers sites are unreachable, and there is no Recruitee adapter (Workday and SmartRecruiters are done)

> [!NOTE]
> **Status refreshed 2026-09-17 — three of the four asks in the old title have landed.**
> The title used to say *"add Workday, SmartRecruiters adapters"*. Both exist. Verified:
>
> ```
> $ python -c "from payband_mcp import ats; print([n for n,_ in ats._BOARDS])"
> ['greenhouse', 'ashby', 'lever', 'smartrecruiters', 'workday']
> ```
>
> | From the list below | State |
> | --- | --- |
> | Workday | **Done** — in `_BOARDS` (63fea18) |
> | SmartRecruiters | **Done** — in `_BOARDS` |
> |…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/13) · 2026-09-16 · open · 6 comments

### Most recent

### An employer we have already probed and rejected is reported as a lookup failure, so callers are sent slug-hunting for a board that does not exist

Ask this tool about Amazon and it sends you to go read a Greenhouse slug out of Amazon's careers page. There isn't one, there never was, and we already know that — it is written down in `selfhosted.py`, four lines from the code that gives the advice.

## What happens today

`fetch_postings` raises `BoardNotFound` with a genuinely good message (`ats.py:375`):

> No public Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever or SmartRecruiters board found for 'amazon' (tried slugs [...]). Two common reasons: the board token…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dheerajjha/payband-mcp/issues/29) · 2026-09-18 · open · 0 comments

[See all 14 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/pay-bands/issues).

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Pay Bands yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

## For agents

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<details>
<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find Pay Bands, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "Pay Bands",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=Pay Bands' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/pay-bands.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/pay-bands.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

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