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> US Dollars, please But I get paid in pounds sterling. Can't this just be a free-form text field?
Yes. My friends in Brazil are already asking for input in BRL. Will add it.
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)
Thing is, this salaryshare is a way to compare salaries with people that you already know, while Glassdoor is more of a general market analysis tool.
What I'm wondering now is how (and if) I can apply the idea of SalaryShare on Job4Dev. If you create a resume there, it already links the companies you listed as working for with the company database. Should I ask for "last compensation received", as well?
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/
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Yes. My friends in Brazil are already asking for input in BRL. Will add it.
It is probably a good idea to keep the original value and the currency rather than converting them to dollars just the one time. This will allow you to recompute dollar figures based on currency exchange fluctuations.
Or are there any cases where a single job market spans two or more currencies?
How's this different from Glassdoor.com?
> This salary is available to members
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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/
One of those $0s is mine. I'm an unemployed college student; it should probably be more like -$20,000. Just sayin'.