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"I prefer to not say" smile. Seriously guys, how hard is this?

• alkonaut 10y ago
  Or just say "I'm looking for around X for a position like this". What's between the lines is you not saying "...and what I make right now isn't relevant at this point". That said, there are traps here. a) for e.g. some public authorities and such it might be the case that your salary is public and the interviewer already has it. or b) As where I live, it's one step worse - everyones salary is public (or rather their tax returns are - but it's pretty easy to deduct someones salary from their tax returns if they are ordinary employees). So I would always assume the interviewer already has the number, and I wouldn't worry much about whether they know or not - but I'd try to steer the conversation away from it and not try to anchor at the current salary.