Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours
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#2Hey if the creator is here -- you should write "optional" or mark which fields are compulsory ... or somehow indicate it's all optional.
I was hesitant to enter the "Employer" details because the combination of all this info would make me personally identifiable ... I abandoned the site, but then came back after thinking "maybe it's optional"
most people wouldn't come back!
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#3Cool to have another one in case glassdoor disappears or something.. Is the benefit here that this would show a list of salaries whereas glassdoor shows averages?
I haven't used glassdoor in awhile but I sort of recall that it checks your domain. Does this do that too?
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#4Why, just why? Besides Glassdoor, there's now comparably.com (which I also question), plus Quora and mobile apps like Blind. Imho, Glassdoor is actually pretty accurate and you can fill in the gaps (things like vesting schedules, promotion paths, etc) through searching and asking questions on Quora.
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#5Very US centric. No currency field? Not everyone expresses wages in amount/year. Are these amounts before tax? After tax?
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#6There is already a ton of websites to check salaries. Glassdoor is the most famous one and I made http://data.jobsintech.io last year.
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#7If you're a new grad a good place to look at is your school's salary survey.
For both MIT and CMU with just a BS the median starting salary is 105k (you have to be bottom half of the class to make less than that!)
https://gecd.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2015-gss-...
Min: $70,000 Max: $185,000 Mean: $106,407
https://www.cmu.edu/career/salaries-and-destinations/2015-su...
Min: $30,000 Max: $150,000 Mean: $103,608
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#8Why, just why? Besides Glassdoor, there's now comparably.com (which I also question), plus Quora and mobile apps like Blind. Imho, Glassdoor is actually pretty accurate and you can fill in the gaps (things like vesting schedules, promotion paths, etc) through searching and asking questions on Quora.
Here's a peculiar opinion. I don't have them often, so enjoy ;)
I agree that implementing an idea that is fairly common already has a high risk of adding only marginal value. I didn't see the website yet, but I was thinking the same thing "don't we have salary sites already? Why would we need another one?"
Then I read your comment and to be honest (and peculiar): if all the value that the website was is having your comment on a HN thread, then it made my day. I never knew that Quora had salary answers. I never knew about Blind and comparably.com either.
So your comment, that's why this site should exist. It's a small reason, but a reason nonetheless. There are other reasons as well but other HNers said them already and this is the first one that popped into my mind.
To add a few myself that I just learned about:
Re: Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours
#9If you're a new grad a good place to look at is your school's salary survey. For both MIT and CMU with just a BS the median starting salary is 105k (you have to be bottom half of the class to make less than that!) https://gecd.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2015-gss-... Min: $70,000 Max: $185,000 Mean: $106,407 https://www.cmu.edu/career/salaries-and-destinations/2015-su... Min: $30,000 Max: $150,000 Mean: $10…
I looked at the MIT one - seems like maybe you misread it? Starting salaries for undergrads are mean and median low 80s. There is a bonus column but it says it's only a measure of the people who got bonus offers in the first place, and even then only brings things into the 90s.
Re: Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours
#10If you're a new grad a good place to look at is your school's salary survey. For both MIT and CMU with just a BS the median starting salary is 105k (you have to be bottom half of the class to make less than that!) https://gecd.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2015-gss-... Min: $70,000 Max: $185,000 Mean: $106,407 https://www.cmu.edu/career/salaries-and-destinations/2015-su... Min: $30,000 Max: $150,000 Mean: $10…
Who is getting 185k with just a BS from MIT?