In RethinkDB, you can do a ‘sum’ and a GROUP BY like so:
r.db('test')
 .table('salaries')
 .group('role')
 .sum('salary')
 .ungroup()
 .map({Title: r.row('group'), Salary: r.row('reduction')})
If you just want an overall sum, do this:
r.db('test')
 .table('salaries')
 .sum('salary')
| Salary | Title | |
| 1 | 403000 | null | 
| 2 | 217000 | Designer | 
| 3 | 425000 | Manager |