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Idea: anonymous salary data

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Post by jgrahamc »

Set up a simple web site where people can enter their job title, location and salary. Totally anonymous plus all data from the survey is made public. To get salary data you'd have to give your own salary information.

Why is salary data so hard to find?

Re: Idea: anonymous salary data

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Post by brk »

nextmoveone wrote: post #4
brk wrote: post #2

How would this be different than salary.com?

Salary.com does not return results for a lot of queries for one.

What problem are you trying to solve? What is the need for "a lot of queries"?

Just curious. This seems like a good(ish) idea, but also one that is not as easy as it sounds. There are no ISO standards for titles, so something like "VP of Business Development" can mean wildly different things from person to person, or company to company.

You would have to (IMO) do a lot to standardize the input options and verify the data to make it really useful.

Re: Idea: anonymous salary data

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Post by steveplace »

brk wrote: post #6
nextmoveone wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Salary.com does not return results for a lot of queries for one.

What problem are you trying to solve? What is the need for "a lot of queries"? Just curious. This seems like a good(ish) idea, but also one that is not as easy as it sounds. There are no ISO standards for titles, so something like "VP of Business Development" can mean wildly different things from person to person, or company to company. You would have to (IMO) do a lot to standardize the input options and verify the…

Well instead of job titles, have it based on other parameters. Example: Degree, College graduated from, years in field, field, area

Then you can do all sorts of fancy stuff (income vs. location; true after-tax income; ratio of income vs. COLA)

Then you could monetize it quickly by linking to off-site job postings, creating your own job board, offering banking opportunities.

yep, gonna file that one away in my idea book.

Re: Idea: anonymous salary data

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Post by nextmoveone »

brk wrote: post #6
nextmoveone wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Salary.com does not return results for a lot of queries for one.

What problem are you trying to solve? What is the need for "a lot of queries"? Just curious. This seems like a good(ish) idea, but also one that is not as easy as it sounds. There are no ISO standards for titles, so something like "VP of Business Development" can mean wildly different things from person to person, or company to company. You would have to (IMO) do a lot to standardize the input options and verify the…

Well for instance...I tried 'Web Developer' in West Palm Beach, Fl and in Miami, Fl.No cigar.

I tried 'PHP Developer' in both cities, nothing.

I tried 'Ruby Developer' in both cities, nothing.

I tried 'Java Developer' in both cities, I got something for Miami.

When I say a lot of queries I meant the majority as in this case.

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