Do Not Disclose Your Salary to Recruiters
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Do Not Disclose Your Salary to Recruiters
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#2Seriously, read this post, listen to this post. I am a terrible negotiator (as in I have taken pay cuts because jobs seemed interesting and paid sticker price for cars) and hate it like 95% of the rest of software engineers but it's how the game is played and we're both ourselves individually and ourselves as a group a disservice by not protecting this information.
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#3Wait, what happened to freely disclosing your salary to everyone? Remember the hashtag movement??
You mean to tell me that this is actually a bad idea?
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#4Recruiters are often paid x% of one year's base salary. In this case, your interests are aligned with the interest of the recruiter.
In my experience, recruiters are 'box checkers'. They have little to no knowledge of your skill set or the skills required for the job outside of buzz words that can be printed on a resume. The reason recruiters ask for your salary is not to engage in price fixing but to ensure that they pursue a placement where 1) the candidate is getting a pay bump and 2) the candidate is priced competitively.
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#5Ignoring the recruiter problem for a second, should I ever feel obligated to disclose salary information? I have had potential employers straight up ask me what my current salary is, should I just tell them I'm not going to answer that question?
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#6Ignoring the recruiter problem for a second, should I ever feel obligated to disclose salary information? I have had potential employers straight up ask me what my current salary is, should I just tell them I'm not going to answer that question?
Just tell them it's confidential.
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#7Ask yourself how much of a salary increase would I like to see, then add that to your current salary and say that sum when asked. The recruiter knows you are not going to take a salary that is below what you currently make, so they will have to offer you a good salary or give the job to somebody else.
Also go read "A Strategy of Conflict", which will enable you to understand and analyze all sorts of negotiations.
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#8When you know you're above market, it's not unreasonable to disclose, knowing they'll go to your old employer and verify you are the "real" deal.
There's little that's a more powerful statement of your value to your prior employer as the salary you'd previously negotiated.
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#9Ignoring the recruiter problem for a second, should I ever feel obligated to disclose salary information? I have had potential employers straight up ask me what my current salary is, should I just tell them I'm not going to answer that question?
Just tell them it's confidential.
Internally, sharing your salary with co-workers is federally protected speech. You could argue to a recruiter that your salary exposed publicly is sharing trade secrets.
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#10Wait, what happened to freely disclosing your salary to everyone? Remember the hashtag movement?? You mean to tell me that this is actually a bad idea?
Disclosing your salary to fellow employees helps them by increasing their ability to bargain effectively with their employer. (and disclosing salaries to each other helps both of you)
Similarly, disclosing your salary to a potential employer helps them by increasing their ability to bargain effectively with you.