Earnings & Jobs
How Salad turns your idle PC into Salad Balance, what the different job types are, and what they use on your machine.
Everything about how your machine earns on Salad: where jobs come from, why rates change, what each job type is, and what Salad actually uses on your PC while it runs.
How earning works
How does my machine earn Salad Balance?
The three workload types and how the rate you're paid is decided.
How much can I earn with Salad?
What your earnings depend on and where to see realistic rates.
Network Monitor
What demand and the earning ranges mean, and why you may earn less than the top rate.
Why do my earnings look different than the Network Monitor?
Why your rate can sit above or below the averages shown.
How estimated earnings work
What the in-app estimate projects and why it moves around.
How can I earn more with Salad?
The settings and habits that make the biggest difference.
Calculating profitability and electricity costs
Measure your power draw and work out whether Salad pays for itself.
How much electricity does Salad use?
What decides your power draw while Chopping.
Job types
How do I get container jobs?
The requirements for the best-paying job type.
What are batch jobs?
Short-lived container jobs and how they differ from long-running ones.
Can you restart or retry failed jobs?
What Salad retries automatically and what you can't force.
How Windows updates affect Salad
Why updates stop your jobs and how to schedule them.
What is bandwidth sharing?
How sharing unused bandwidth earns, and the small risks involved.
Mining as a backup workload
What mining is on Salad today, what it pays, the miners used and how to turn it off.
Your PC's resources
Does Salad use all of my PC's resources?
What a job takes from your GPU, CPU and internet.
Can I adjust how much of my GPU is used?
Why jobs need the whole card.
Why isn't Task Manager showing any activity for Salad?
Where to see real GPU usage while Chopping.
Why is my earning rate sporadic?
Why rates rise and fall through the day.
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