www.glassdoor.com does this pretty well...
Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
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Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do your coworkers routinely sniff your network traffic? It sounds like an awfully rude thing to do.
I don't think so, but why put them in a position where they'd be tempted? If I send out a link to the salary share pool on our internal chat, the assumption is that at least some people will go filling it out around that time. If someone gets the temptation to know exactly what's going on, they could start up a packet sniffer. OTOH, a StartSSL cert would prevent all of this from happening.
Would you be okay with the cert provided by webfaction (where the site is hosted?), for now?
Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#123HN 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/
There doesn't seem to be a way of looking at the responses without entering a value, which makes it difficult for students, job seekers, etc., to look at the results without entering meaningless data to get there. Am I missing something?
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#124SF/Bay Area iPhone Developers (put 22 if you just want to see the results)
Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think so, but why put them in a position where they'd be tempted? If I send out a link to the salary share pool on our internal chat, the assumption is that at least some people will go filling it out around that time. If someone gets the temptation to know exactly what's going on, they could start up a packet sniffer. OTOH, a StartSSL cert would prevent all of this from happening.
Would you be okay with the cert provided by webfaction (where the site is hosted?), for now? https://salaryshare.me
I imagine that this will deter people from quickly starting up a packet sniffer when they share links to your site. However, how are you able to use webfaction's cert? Do they just give you their private key? Or is it just a cert that is not really signed by anyone and the common name is set to *.webfaction.com? In other words, this does not mean that you can spoof www.webfaction.com's signature, corret?
Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#126How about listing public pools on the front page (and giving the option to make a pool public)
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#127After 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:…
The problem is that (something most HR firms have known for decades) people inflate their salaries pretty consistently.
If you want to know what people are making, you don't ask them, you ask their employers.
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#128After 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:…
The problem is that (something most HR firms have known for decades) people inflate their salaries pretty consistently. If you want to know what people are making, you don't ask them, you ask their employers.
Looks like you missed the previous thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2436147
Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
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? $0 ... sheesh. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
There doesn't seem to be a way of looking at the responses without entering a value, which makes it difficult for students, job seekers, etc., to look at the results without entering meaningless data to get there. Am I missing something?
Just enter a 0$ for now, won't do much harm.
Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Just one correction: your employer will also know exactly who you are by just your salary alone. Chances are not everyone is making the same amount and if you say you make 100,760,000 rubles, it's easy enough to just look it up. Your co-workers of course don't have this info. I personally liked the other trick better: the one that gives you the average salary. Or maybe median is more appropriate. The point is that it…
Average and standard deviation would do the trick, then you know where your salary is placed within a normal distribution.