What this guide helps with
A city page can be too narrow for a real decision. Nearby alternatives use real inventory counts where available, so you can see whether another city has more or fewer active jobs.
Decision guides
How to compare nearby job alternatives
How to use inventory deltas between nearby cities and regions when the current page is too narrow.
How to read deltas
A positive delta means the alternative has more active jobs than the current city page; a negative delta means fewer. The current city should be excluded from its own alternative list.
When to use it
Use alternatives when pay, contract type, commute, or requirements are weak on the current page. It is a search-expansion tool, not a promise that every nearby job is better.
Other guides
Compare pay evidence
How to read source pay values, salary ranges, missing pay, and sampled salary coverage without over-trusting a single listing.
Understand source data
What partner feeds, sampled listings, aggregate counts, and job-source facts mean on puntWork pages.
Verify before applying
A practical checklist for checking known, missing, and stale job facts before leaving puntWork for a partner application page.