Compare Tech Salaries Instantly: Introducing the VanHack Tech Salary Calculator
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#2direct link to the calculator https://vanhack.com/tech-salary-calculator
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#3Salary data is hard to get. Those who are contractors, employees of a firm that outsources like Calian or CGI or whose primary skill sets do not include programming languages (project management, security, database) won't find much on this site.
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#4Is Asia on the roadmap? I noticed it seems very focused on just US/Europe right now.
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#5There should be a legal requirement for companies to publicly post the salary band for every role. Otherwise, how do employees know where to start negotiations? This opaqueness only helps the employer, who already has much more leverage. Price assymetry goes against free market principles. The price of labor is like any other price of a good or service. People should know how much something costs before buying.
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#6Is Asia on the roadmap? I noticed it seems very focused on just US/Europe right now.
The data is based on real data from our platform, and we currently serve mostly companies in North America and Europe. When we do expand to Asia, sure!
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#7There should be a legal requirement for companies to publicly post the salary band for every role. Otherwise, how do employees know where to start negotiations? This opaqueness only helps the employer, who already has much more leverage. Price assymetry goes against free market principles. The price of labor is like any other price of a good or service. People should know how much something costs before buying.
Ideally the total compensation band. For most tech jobs salary can be only 50% of total compensation.
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#8There should be a legal requirement for companies to publicly post the salary band for every role. Otherwise, how do employees know where to start negotiations? This opaqueness only helps the employer, who already has much more leverage. Price assymetry goes against free market principles. The price of labor is like any other price of a good or service. People should know how much something costs before buying.
The EU created a proposal "EU to mandate public salary information for all job postings [pdf]" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30440211 so one day it may be required.
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#9There should be a legal requirement for companies to publicly post the salary band for every role. Otherwise, how do employees know where to start negotiations? This opaqueness only helps the employer, who already has much more leverage. Price assymetry goes against free market principles. The price of labor is like any other price of a good or service. People should know how much something costs before buying.
I fully support this, but it needs to be beyond base salary. they should state base and total comp with all of the strings clearly attached.
A previous employer would pat themselves on the back for keeping tight comp bands and paying everyone fairly, but they didn't disclose how new highers received very different signup bonuses and RSU packages. So yes, looking by ethnicity/gender/age/etc, everyone had the same base, but they were definitely not paid equally.
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#10There should be a legal requirement for companies to publicly post the salary band for every role. Otherwise, how do employees know where to start negotiations? This opaqueness only helps the employer, who already has much more leverage. Price assymetry goes against free market principles. The price of labor is like any other price of a good or service. People should know how much something costs before buying.
Ideally the total compensation band. For most tech jobs salary can be only 50% of total compensation.
It should be both. Base is important for home purchases and 401k matching. TC is complicated b/c of all the strings.