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Re: Salar.ly - real salary info for tech jobs

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Post by Swizec »

afhof wrote: post #70
Swizec wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tech salaries are correlated only to your ability and willingness to negotiate. That's what happens with a market starved for good people.

How do I know if I'm good? If I'm a fresh grad I have no idea if the salary I'm getting is good. Without an objective measure of skill and without knowing how "good" other people are its pretty hard for a greenhorn to know.

That's why a greenhorn asks everyone how much they earn. Screw politeness and anglosaxon pride and whatnot. Ask everyone. Tell everyone. Observe reactions.

When you get to the point where nobody comments on how cheap you are. That's when you've reached the bottom limit of what you should be earning.

Ask for more.

Also, if you start out as a freelancer, you can iterate your paycheck every couple of months. Do that. Ask each new client for 25%+ more than your previous client. Eventually you will find a ceiling.

Figure out how to go beyond the ceiling.

Encourage all your friends to do the same. This gives you an environment that always pushes you to earn more.

Re: Salar.ly - real salary info for tech jobs

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Post by Kurtz79 »

bbrizzi wrote: post #73

> Salar.ly - real salary info for US tech jobs FTFY - Even though the majority of HN readership is American, it's still not the center of the world. Sorry.

I second that, and would be curious to see to what extent "The majority of HN readership is American"... anyway.

For me (and I guess a lot of people) it would be quite interesting to see what is the difference in salaries across the EU countries, for example.

Re: Salar.ly - real salary info for tech jobs

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Post by brownbat »

Kurtz79 wrote: post #74
bbrizzi wrote: post #73

> Salar.ly - real salary info for US tech jobs FTFY - Even though the majority of HN readership is American, it's still not the center of the world. Sorry.

I second that, and would be curious to see to what extent "The majority of HN readership is American"... anyway. For me (and I guess a lot of people) it would be quite interesting to see what is the difference in salaries across the EU countries, for example.

I'd really like to see salaries around the world for jobs where you can work from home and VPN in.

Because, uh, idle curiosity:

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/17/business/us-outsource-job-...

Re: Salar.ly - real salary info for tech jobs

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Post by leeny »

This is awesome.

I did want to report a few bugs I noticed:

- Sorting appears to be broken. Specifically, sorting on the salary field appears to neither sort the data is currently visible nor all the data (i.e. the global max or min).

- Sorting on salary also causes the "Title" column to resize. I tried in both FF and Chrome, and the behavior is consistent.

- Pagination is also kind of weird. The total number of pages listed at the top is different than the number of pages listed at the bottom.

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