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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 :)
HN Salary Pool http://salaryshare.me/230acd5ff2df1bf8cb03f403aabd45be If any ones interested.
> US Dollars, please But I get paid in pounds sterling. Can't this just be a free-form text field?
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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 th…
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:…
For smaller groups, you could add an option to show only the average, not the salaries. Then with as few as 3 people it would be reasonable to disclose the value.
HN Salary Pool http://salaryshare.me/230acd5ff2df1bf8cb03f403aabd45be If any ones interested.
It's so sad that some trolling assholes will try to poison cool projects like this by entering extremely high or low numbers. $33million? $123? $0 ... sheesh. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/