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I've seen some recruiters straight up refuse to work with me when I wouldn't disclose my current salary. Very glad they did.
When 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.
Wait, 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?
This post seems to be more about at a personal level, and not giving in when the salary negotiations start.
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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.
When 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.
Ignoring 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?
You're generally not even allowed to discuss your salary with your colleagues after (if) you're hired by one of those potential employers. If it's confidential after that, it should be confidential before, too.
http://www.npr.org/2014/04/13/301989789/pay-secrecy-policies...
Recruiters 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 the…
I can look it up later but it has been shown that real estate brokers wait longer for better prices on their own house than they do for their clients.
Seriously, 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.
Society at large does not work as a huge family - this does not mean that it's a dog eat dog world but it's good to have some negotioations theory under ones belt as one becomes a seasoned professional.
Ignoring 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?
You're generally not even allowed to discuss your salary with your colleagues after (if) you're hired by one of those potential employers. If it's confidential after that, it should be confidential before, too.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Even federally arguing that current salary is a trade secret is a legal gray area.