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If your salary is public information, then any future employer can peg to it, rather than the market rate. It is to your benefit for your compensation to be pri
by Y7ZCQtNo39 9y ago
If your salary is public information, then any future employer can peg to it, rather than the market rate. It is to your benefit for your compensation to be privately held.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoIf everyone's salary is public information, you can see what they're paying everyone else and get at least that much for the same job.
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- eropple 9y agoIt's not to my benefit at all. In every salary negotiation past my first job out of college I have said "I expect to be paid $X to switch jobs" and I was paid $X (or very close to; obviously, sometimes you kick a little back) to switch jobs or I didn't switch jobs. What you do is what's important. Make a proactive argument for your value and you don't have to fall back on your current compensation.
- PeachPlum 9y agoWhat if every time they thought "we got him/her for a measly $X, sweet"
- conanbatt 9y agoEmployers know a lot more about salaries than you do, considering they have a lot more information points, reliable information data than you. The information asymmetry is too pronounced to be overcome by mere negotiation tactics.
- dredmorbius 9y agoCombined with collective bargaining, not so much. Star-system employment as well, mentioned for completeness, though that doesn't scale to populations: everybody cannot be a star.
- losvedir 9y agoJust get two competing offers. Then the question flips from "how little will the candidate accept?" to "how much can we afford?".