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What I'd like to see is a salary aggregator that works as a native app only: 1) It should use the Facebook model of release where only "elite" institutions are

What I'd like to see is a salary aggregator that works as a native app only: 1) It should use the Facebook model of release where only "elite" institutions are allowed on at first and only one at a time. 2) It should use geolocation as a way to verify the user works there (other ways are easier to game or too burdensome). Yes, this does leave out remote workers. See #1.

pvnick 11y ago
Go for it!
avar 11y ago
It's trivial to game geolocation, e.g.: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lexa.fakegps&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lexa.fakeg...
- fasteddie 11y ago
  Sure, but 1. even a small amount of friction will cut off the vast majority from doing it, especially when 2. there's no payoff to lying about your location in a salary transparency app
  - jdmichal 11y ago
    If there's no payoff, then why gate via location in the first place?
    - wagglycocks 11y ago
      Because it's currently full of junk entries where people say they work on the moon
      - jdmichal 11y ago
        So then there is a payoff to lying?
nickysielicki 11y ago
Funny you bring up Facebook, because what I you really need to solve this type of problem is something like Facesmash. (sidenote: I don't know if that was actually a real thing or just something in The Social Network.) You want /r/roastme for coworkers-- but private. Somewhere that you can rank former coworkers and they can rank you-- But the biggest selling point needs to be that this dossier is only ever available to you. NEVER to potential employers, coworkers, etc. There are some interesting problems-- like delaying/masking the changing in your ELO such that it can't be tied to people you know have ranked you, otherwise you'll get an obvious bias because people don't want to risk a burnt bridge. But I think if people are honest about their salaries on such a site, you can give them a reasonable idea of if they're being underpaid.
- codeddesign 11y ago
  It's "facemash", and it was real: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creator-survives-ad-board-the/ http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creato...

pvnick 11y ago

Go for it!

avar 11y ago

It's trivial to game geolocation, e.g.: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lexa.fakegps&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lexa.fakeg...

fasteddie 11y ago
Sure, but 1. even a small amount of friction will cut off the vast majority from doing it, especially when 2. there's no payoff to lying about your location in a salary transparency app
- jdmichal 11y ago
  If there's no payoff, then why gate via location in the first place?
  - wagglycocks 11y ago
    Because it's currently full of junk entries where people say they work on the moon
    - jdmichal 11y ago
      So then there is a payoff to lying?

nickysielicki 11y ago

Funny you bring up Facebook, because what I you really need to solve this type of problem is something like Facesmash. (sidenote: I don't know if that was actually a real thing or just something in The Social Network.) You want /r/roastme for coworkers-- but private. Somewhere that you can rank former coworkers and they can rank you-- But the biggest selling point needs to be that this dossier is only ever available to you. NEVER to potential employers, coworkers, etc. There are some interesting problems-- like delaying/masking the changing in your ELO such that it can't be tied to people you know have ranked you, otherwise you'll get an obvious bias because people don't want to risk a burnt bridge. But I think if people are honest about their salaries on such a site, you can give them a reasonable idea of if they're being underpaid.

codeddesign 11y ago
It's "facemash", and it was real: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creator-survives-ad-board-the/ http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creato...