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Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data
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#82I love these things. Transparency in salary information gives the employees more power. I know the site is down at the moment but it's worth it to bookmark and come back later. Make sure you set the search fields to 2013 or 2012 to 2013 to remove stale salaries. You don't want to negotiate using data from 2009. ;) Here is comparing google to microsoft to amazon in Seattle. The gaps are pretty wide even for college hi…
Let's say you're being underpaid; what is the right strategy to take? I don't want to poison the working relationship with people above me.
Hey I'm at work right now. Later tonight I will try to give you some success and failure stories.
But basically they are more worried about poisoning relationships with you than the other way around. If you leave for a higher paying job and your peers find out...that's much worse for the company.
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Can you clarify on why not? If you get interest and a big news hit, isn't it important to you to capitalize on that as much as possible and leave a good impression so people come back to use your service? If you don't have the funds that's one thing and I get it, but seems like spikes are exactly the kind of thing worth spending on.
The website a weekend project, not something I care for whether people use it. On average it has five to ten visitors a day unless linked to from somewhere big which only happens like twice a year.
This site is awesome. Can you please put up a paypal link? I want to give you money regardless of what you do with it.
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#84Server Error 500. Sigh. Yawn.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not always. My company offers market rate adjustments (outside of the usual review/salary adjustment periods) to retain experienced developers.
How does such process work? What determines the market rate for the adjustments?
The rate required to stop experienced developers from leaving. That's quite easy to measure. Enough of the people will leave will tell you what offer they got, and you adjust up until the rate of turnover is acceptably low.
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You are expected to leave the company. Raises are kept far, far below the rate at which employees actually accrue value in order to ensure that employees do not stay at a company for longer than 4 or 5 years. After 4 or 5 years, the gap between what you would make anywhere else and what you can make where you already are is enormous. There is a quote from hundreds of years ago which applies. "Make game of that which…
I believe this to be true. However, in some cases you can get a competing offer and have your current employer match it. My experience is that suggesting you are underpaid without a competing offer doesn't get you very far. Most employers will pay you as little as possible given the market and in the tech market you can jump ship.
If you are looking for a counter offer, you're pretty much burning your bridge. Nothing but resentment can come from that. Additionally it makes you look weak if you take the offer.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's say you're being underpaid; what is the right strategy to take? I don't want to poison the working relationship with people above me.
You are expected to leave the company. Raises are kept far, far below the rate at which employees actually accrue value in order to ensure that employees do not stay at a company for longer than 4 or 5 years. After 4 or 5 years, the gap between what you would make anywhere else and what you can make where you already are is enormous. There is a quote from hundreds of years ago which applies. "Make game of that which…
[...] in order to ensure that employees do not stay at a company for longer than 4 or 5 years.
Training new people is expensive. Why would any sane company deliberately encourage turnover?
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#89Is there something similar for non-H1B data? I've previously used salary.com, glassdoor.com and search results on indeed.com to try and compare local salaries, and the variation can be as much as $15k on either end (low-|high-)
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does such process work? What determines the market rate for the adjustments?
The rate required to stop experienced developers from leaving. That's quite easy to measure. Enough of the people will leave will tell you what offer they got, and you adjust up until the rate of turnover is acceptably low.
From my experience, there's always a company willing to pay you more. If they see some company paying you X, they think your skills are worth at least X.
So your explanation doesn't really answer the question.