LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn

Post by coredog64 » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 5:24 AM UTC

ones_and_zeros wrote: post #40

mswen wrote: post #35

Awhile back I reserved the domain developersalarybenchmarks.com HR departments can purchase salary benchmarks from companies like Mercer. Everyone on the developers side would like better benchmarks that are free or nearly free to even the odds when negotiating job offers or raises from current employers. I haven't created a site yet in part because of the self-reporting problems. Will developers trust an unknown sta…

I've thought about this as well. Ultimately you need access to some pretty private data. One thought I've had is to use the mint/intuit APIs to get a list of a persons transactions in their bank account and find the ones that occur every 2 weeks, etc. Or possibly have users upload paystubs, though you'd have to have someway to verify. I'm sure that's possible.

Post by notmything » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 9:28 AM UTC

up_and_up wrote: post #120

KiwiCoder wrote: post #29

I believe LinkedIn may have already reached its maximum potential and is on a downward trend. Of course I'm speaking only from personal experience, but as both candidate and hiring manager LinkedIn holds next to no value for me. I see it as a commons that has been largely ruined by recruiting agents who are incentivised by their employers to maximise candidate throughput at everyone else's expense. There is some resi…

> I believe LinkedIn may have already reached its maximum potential and is on a downward trend. Hence why I closed my account a year ago. As an engineer it provides me with nothing but recruiter spam.

Post by josephb » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 10:18 AM UTC

tvanantwerp wrote: post #134

KiwiCoder wrote: post #29

I believe LinkedIn may have already reached its maximum potential and is on a downward trend. Of course I'm speaking only from personal experience, but as both candidate and hiring manager LinkedIn holds next to no value for me. I see it as a commons that has been largely ruined by recruiting agents who are incentivised by their employers to maximise candidate throughput at everyone else's expense. There is some resi…

> I'm very fond of the growing number of endorsements I've received for Sarcasm and Bubbles. One of my coworkers talked me into playing this game. We look for the most professionally pointless endorsements our contacts have and add to them. So maybe someone ends up 3 endorsements for Econometrics and 18 for Microsoft Powerpoint.

Post by estefan » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 11:45 AM UTC

pcurve wrote: post #52

Raphmedia wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why you should lie even to forms when asked for your salary.

Let's just all put down random number between $220,000 - $275,000 as base.

Post by aq3cn » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 2:51 PM UTC

babuskov wrote: post #162

allengeorge wrote: post #32

Hopefully LinkedIn won't ask me for my salary in the future. Cause I definitely don't trust them with my salary info. They'll sell it to everyone - recruiters, other companies...

But that's the whole point and you can turn it to your advantage. Report the salary you want, possibly higher than the one you have and all the recruiters and potential employers will know not to contact you if they cannot pay that much.