How much does a background check cost (2 sources)

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through the estate's fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

2 of the 18 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 16 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 12 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

Derivation as chartered: one row per seller per package: the advertised price, what the package contains, the set-up fee and the add-on prices, read from the seller's own pricing page.

Ours: the median, minimum and maximum advertised price for the SAME package shape (a basic county-criminal check, a full employment screen, a tenant screen with credit, a five- and a ten-panel urine test, a hair test), the share of sellers that publish a price at all versus quote-only - measured, and it is a striking number: the largest CRAs (Sterling, HireRight, First Advantage, VICTIG, Universal) publish none - and repriced-since the previous read.

12 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.