Salary Classification & Prediction based on Job Field and Location using Ensemble Methods

The economy is one of the determinants of how a person can live their life. In this current economic situation, inflation occurs everywhere, causing the prices of necessities to rise. In order to have a decent life, people must find a job with the highest possible salary to fulfill their needs. Various job industries have their salary range. Obtaining the information of salary level for the respective job is helpful for employers and employees to estimate the expected salary. This work aims to classify the salary level of jobs available in Indonesia and determine whether those salaries are decent enough. The learning methods are logistic regression, decision tree, k-nearest neighbor, support vector machine, voting classifier, bagging classifier, random forest, and boosting classifier. Random Forest achieved the best result with an accuracy rate of 72%. Based on the analysis result, factors such as job field, educational background, working experience, working hours, and job location influence salary.