About Orbital Comp

Orbital Comp is an anonymous compensation database for engineers working across European space, defence-adjacent, and deep-tech hardware. It turns salary conversations now confined to private messages into aggregated benchmarks the wider workforce can use.

The model is reciprocal: contribute a complete compensation record to unlock the data. This keeps the benchmark growing while protecting contributors from the pressure of maintaining a public salary profile.

Our goal is straightforward: give engineers better evidence for career decisions and give responsible employers a clearer basis for building competitive compensation bands.