Re: Why I send these out -- was Re: Here's another winner - guess the pay

Subject: Re: Why I send these out -- was Re: Here's another winner - guess the pay
From: Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L mailinglist <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:32:57 -0500

*APPLAUDS* Well said.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:01 PM, William Sherman
<bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com> wrote:
> The problem with the modern job market is everyone stresses the
> confidentiality of wages. This is not to the advantage of the worker, but
> the company.

If folks haven't heard about the site, you can view self-reported wage
data by company over on http://www.glassdoor.com. You have to submit
a salary in order to view salaries, but I think that's a fair trade.
And you can always report your salary from a previous company if you
feel funny about posting your current salary.

While the site isn't as useful for smaller companies, I've found that
most mid-sized companies have at least a couple salaries listed. And
big companies like Google, Microsoft and IBM have a lot of data
reported. And even if a company doesn't have any tech writers
reporting in, since I'm in the software industry, I can get a ballpark
idea of how a company pays their employees by checking out the wages
they're paying their software developers, QA testers, and support
personnel.


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