Show HN: Honest Salary – Help make salaries fair and honest by sharing yours

Post by nck4222 » Sat, Mar 19, 2016, 2:18 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #31

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #13

Just posted this to the other discussion, but it bears just the same. This is just going to be a collection of anecdotes from people who self-select to report because they feel good about where they're at, or because they feel righteously justified in complaining about their situation. Self-selection ruins the data. The responses have to be random to be useful. And the silly thing is that most people who are involved…

It's not actually that bad. First, even in your version, the "feel goods" (high salaries) and the "complainers" (low salaries) would cancel each other out, and (assuming equal numbers of them) will give us a usable median value. But in the real world is more complicated than "self-selection" in the basic mode you describe. Who might "feel good" and who might feel "justified in complaining" will not be so much based o…

Post by titusblair » Sat, Mar 19, 2016, 2:20 PM UTC

CydeWeys wrote: post #38

negrit wrote: post #6

There is already a ton of websites to check salaries. Glassdoor is the most famous one and I made http://data.jobsintech.io last year.

The one you made seems completely focused on foreign workers. What am I missing? At first glance it does not appear to be of any relevance to me. Also, and this is a usability complaint, but when I'm searching for companies all of the search results are coming up in all lowercase. This is not a good user experience. You should style the companies using the same case that they themselves do. The use of "llc" is partic…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 19, 2016, 2:22 PM UTC

hn_user2 wrote: post #26

a_imho wrote: post #25

Take aside legal aspects, why wouldn't any employee share their salary with their peers? All the secrecy just create noise, how could transparency be bad? I only see some incentive from the company's pov, you can position yourself somewhat better at bargaining salaries, when your employee has no access to the same data to debate, thus lowering costs a few percents. What am I missing?

If you on the high end of the pay scale, then sharing your information can hurt you. When it comes time to negotiate a raise, the company could be reluctant to give you a raise knowing that your peers will also expect a similar raise. If you keep your salary a secret, when it comes time to ask for even more money, then the company could be more likely to offer it since it will not have repercussions across the whole…

Post by CydeWeys » Sat, Mar 19, 2016, 2:31 PM UTC

negrit wrote: post #44

CydeWeys wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The one you made seems completely focused on foreign workers. What am I missing? At first glance it does not appear to be of any relevance to me. Also, and this is a usability complaint, but when I'm searching for companies all of the search results are coming up in all lowercase. This is not a good user experience. You should style the companies using the same case that they themselves do. The use of "llc" is partic…

Legal foreign workers are required by law to have the same salary than U.S. workers so it's relevant. >I'm searching for companies all of the search results are coming up in all lowercase. This is not a good user experience. You should style the companies using the same case that they themselves do. The data come from government records and it's all in uppercase.

Post by studentrob » Sat, Mar 19, 2016, 2:36 PM UTC

effie wrote: post #21

studentrob wrote: post #3

Cool 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?

What do you mean by "it checks your domain"? Does it change information displayed based on where you connect from?