Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
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Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
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Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#2After 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://salaryshare.me/8a6e32dd8c9166905db6cfd588044bad). Share that URL with everyone that you want to participate, and after a minimum number of people have given in their salaries, the results are disclosed.
Apply any standard disclaimers that should apply for an application developed in less than 6 hours.
Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#3Nice idea, but I'd want to e.g. wait a day/week/month and then disclose all salaries and close the pool. After all, salaries added after the pool has been opened are much less private.
Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#4Nice idea, but I'd want to e.g. wait a day/week/month and then disclose all salaries and close the pool. After all, salaries added after the pool has been opened are much less private.
I did plan for time-based, self-expiring pools. I'm also thinking of adding an option to get a user-configurable minimum number of participants.
For the sake of simplicity, I left out of this first version. The way it is working now, you can only see the results after adding your own salary.
Call it a MVP, if you will. It might be in the next version if people show enough interest.
Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#5I've had something like this in the back of my head for a while, glad to see someone implement it.
One thing though is how do you suggest getting people to join the pool? Pass the link around? You might not want to get caught as a ring leader on something like this, or even as a participent, as some companies really hate salary sharing.
Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#6A few stats and graphs won't hurt; but it's great for 6hrs.
Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#7Nice idea, but I'd want to e.g. wait a day/week/month and then disclose all salaries and close the pool. After all, salaries added after the pool has been opened are much less private.
I did plan for time-based, self-expiring pools. I'm also thinking of adding an option to get a user-configurable minimum number of participants. For the sake of simplicity, I left out of this first version. The way it is working now, you can only see the results after adding your own salary. Call it a MVP, if you will. It might be in the next version if people show enough interest.
A user-configurable minimum would be a great help in convincing my peers to participate.
Do you think you could add a jpeg or two to the front page demonstrating a couple of sample salaries and the information I would see as output?
Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#8I've had something like this in the back of my head for a while, glad to see someone implement it. One thing though is how do you suggest getting people to join the pool? Pass the link around? You might not want to get caught as a ring leader on something like this, or even as a participent, as some companies really hate salary sharing.
One thing though is how do you suggest getting people to join the pool? Pass the link around? You might not want to get caught as a ring leader on something like this, or even as a participent, as some companies really hate salary sharing.
There needs to be an anonymous sharing system. Put emails into the system, and Salary$hare emails those people.
Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#9I've had something like this in the back of my head for a while, glad to see someone implement it. One thing though is how do you suggest getting people to join the pool? Pass the link around? You might not want to get caught as a ring leader on something like this, or even as a participent, as some companies really hate salary sharing.
One thing though is how do you suggest getting people to join the pool? Pass the link around? You might not want to get caught as a ring leader on something like this, or even as a participent, as some companies really hate salary sharing. There needs to be an anonymous sharing system. Put emails into the system, and Salary$hare emails those people.
That is an awesome idea.
Re: Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did plan for time-based, self-expiring pools. I'm also thinking of adding an option to get a user-configurable minimum number of participants. For the sake of simplicity, I left out of this first version. The way it is working now, you can only see the results after adding your own salary. Call it a MVP, if you will. It might be in the next version if people show enough interest.
A user-configurable minimum would be a great help in convincing my peers to participate. Do you think you could add a jpeg or two to the front page demonstrating a couple of sample salaries and the information I would see as output?
Don't you think that that may lead to a powerful anchoring effect, skewing the results? I suppose you could put in obviously bogus numbers, but..