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No employer "routinely overpays" for workers without knowing it. It's a strategy, not something you stumble into by accident. > An employer may find out, when
by smt88 5y ago
No employer "routinely overpays" for workers without knowing it. It's a strategy, not something you stumble into by accident.
> An employer may find out, when interviewing a person, that they'll need to pay more than the maximum they were forced to advertise - so they can't pay more.
This makes no sense. The interviewee would simply not apply in the first place.
- WalterBright 5y ago> No employer "routinely overpays" for workers without knowing it. There is no secret database of what is being paid. They don't know any more than the employee does, or can find out with google. > The interviewee would simply not apply in the first place. Both the employer and interviewee find out things in the process. The employer may want to ensure the interviewee doesn't take one of the other jobs he's looking into.
- smt88 5y ago> There is no secret database of what is being paid. There are public and private databases of this info. Glassdoor is public, but you can also buy salary data from the credit bureaus. Every large company can easily find out what a single applicant has made in the past and/or get aggregated data regarding a particular title.
- WalterBright 5y agoYou don't need to know what individuals make. You need to know in general what people in your skill level make, and that is easily googled.