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Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo

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Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo

#11

Post by donohoe »

rglullis wrote: post #2

After the discussion yesterday about how hard it is to know if your salary is comparable to your co-workers, and inspired by nostromo's "trick" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2439443 ), I decided to implement a website where everyone can compare notes, without having to disclose personal info. It works by creating "salary pools". When you create a pool you get an unguessable URL (e.g, I created a pool at http:…

Without context, salary is meaningless.

You should ask for title and years experience in the role. Without that a comparison is tough.

Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo

#13

Post by CWIZO »

donohoe wrote: post #11
rglullis wrote: post #2

After the discussion yesterday about how hard it is to know if your salary is comparable to your co-workers, and inspired by nostromo's "trick" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2439443 ), I decided to implement a website where everyone can compare notes, without having to disclose personal info. It works by creating "salary pools". When you create a pool you get an unguessable URL (e.g, I created a pool at http:…

Without context, salary is meaningless. You should ask for title and years experience in the role. Without that a comparison is tough.

This. And also location. Without location this is useless. I can't possibly compare my Slovenian salary to you yankees :)

Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo

#14

Post by euccastro »

donohoe wrote: post #11
rglullis wrote: post #2

After the discussion yesterday about how hard it is to know if your salary is comparable to your co-workers, and inspired by nostromo's "trick" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2439443 ), I decided to implement a website where everyone can compare notes, without having to disclose personal info. It works by creating "salary pools". When you create a pool you get an unguessable URL (e.g, I created a pool at http:…

Without context, salary is meaningless. You should ask for title and years experience in the role. Without that a comparison is tough.

I think the point is that users will share links with other people with comparable title and experience.

Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo

#15

Post by jsherry »

Very cool. Might be interesting to collect age, years of experience and perhaps company while you're at it so you can see a nice distribution. This might destroy some anonymity amongst a close group of friends, but amongst a diverse anonymous crowd such as HN it would be interesting.

Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo

#17

Post by pstack »

donohoe wrote: post #11
rglullis wrote: post #2

After the discussion yesterday about how hard it is to know if your salary is comparable to your co-workers, and inspired by nostromo's "trick" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2439443 ), I decided to implement a website where everyone can compare notes, without having to disclose personal info. It works by creating "salary pools". When you create a pool you get an unguessable URL (e.g, I created a pool at http:…

Without context, salary is meaningless. You should ask for title and years experience in the role. Without that a comparison is tough.

I work for a company with well over 100,000 employees, but if I gave my salary, title, and years experience (and as someone else noted, especially if I added my location), I wouldn't be anonymous. To my employer, at least. It would be trivial for them to narrow down the information to being provided by a very small number of people - if not the exact person.

I don't see this flying, where I work though. Even among the people I'm closest to, I don't think they'd take to this sort of information sharing amongst each other. Even pseudo-anonymously. I'm not sure if that's because they'd feel it's tacky or if it's because it has been drilled into everyone from corporate culture that you _never_ talk about it.

As an aside, I would actually much rather know not what the guys I've been working alongside for the past decade are making compared to me, but what new hires in the same positions as us are being hired at. Especially when you throw in all the hiring freezes and pay freezes over the last ten years.

Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo

#19

Post by rglullis »

donohoe wrote: post #11
rglullis wrote: post #2

After the discussion yesterday about how hard it is to know if your salary is comparable to your co-workers, and inspired by nostromo's "trick" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2439443 ), I decided to implement a website where everyone can compare notes, without having to disclose personal info. It works by creating "salary pools". When you create a pool you get an unguessable URL (e.g, I created a pool at http:…

Without context, salary is meaningless. You should ask for title and years experience in the role. Without that a comparison is tough.

I think the use case is to get an informal survey among your peers. I wouldn't expect a C-level professional or someone more senior to be using it. But that doesn't mean you can't create a pool and send only to the half-a-dozen guys that you work with, or your cubicle-neighbors.
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