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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

That is not the point of the site. From the inspiration linked above, it is clear that it is about comparing salaries in a single firm or in a similar fairly homogeneous setting.

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

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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/

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

You could fudge the title or years of experience slightly one way or the other. The point isn't to be exact, but to differentiate between associate developers 3 months out of college and staff engineers with 20+ years of experience.

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

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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:…

Take a look at glassdoor.com - it handles salary info with context (company, etc)

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

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Who defines the 'minimum number of people'? If it's not user-defined, I think you should make it clear what that value is. Otherwise, if I share this to my team of 7, but the minimum is 8, we'll never know.

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.

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

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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/

The solution to this problem is to use a trimmed mean:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated_mean

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