Two web sites that should help you get a better sense of how you compare financially to your pals and co-workers launched public Betas yesterday.

The first is the much anticipated FiLife (think financial high life). Read the welcome message from FiLife President and Minnesota native Dave Kansas.

It’s a purty web site with lots of bells and whistles. You can waste a lot of time with “The Stacker.” Enter how much money you make, how much debt you have, or how much your house is worth, and a chubby stick figure dances into position to show how well you’re doing relative to the rest of the nation, your age range, even your hometown.

Then there are financial tips to improve your financial lot based on how you stack up.

The partnership between IAC — the folks that bring you Ask.com and Lendingtree.com and Dow Jones has been in the works for more than a year now, but has had a presence online as a light-on-content blog for the past few months.

You still need a flashlight and telescope to find the in-house and Wall Street Journal content. I finally found it when I clicked on “FiLife Deals.” The WSJ content is free.

The other site is called Glassdoor.com. It is an anonymous salary-sharing site. It just launched, so the salary information is pretty thin and focused on IT companies. Hopefully that will change.

The site also has a way to share your job perks and peeves with others.

Turns out I make less than a Yahoo software engineer. Go figure!

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