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Does it bother you that job listings rarely tell what the income is?

Also, would you use a Free site that you could look up wages for that exact job that you looking to apply for, and would you put down what you make at your job or a previous job?

Public Comments

1. No, because in most cases the pay is based on experience, there isn't an exact amount set. The company will have a salary scale and judge the exact pay based on the specific candidate for the job. For instance, a company may be hiring for a job and have budgeted for between $40,000 and $50,000 as the pay. They find an ideal person for the job, who was making $35,000 in a previous job; obviously then, they are going to offer an income in the lower range of the scale as that will be enought to secure the candidate. Update: The reason they don't post a range is because people being hired at the bottom of the range would question it. It would cause problems. It would also give them ammo to ask for pay rise in the near future, which is more information than the average Personnel department wants to make public.
2. Even though the pay is based on experience they could still post the range, which they don't. I find that inconvenient because it would save time if I could weed out the listings for jobs that don't pay what I need.
3. No, it doesn't bother me, although it is convenient if they post a range. Usually only government listings do that. I think there is enough variety in the marketplace, not only in what is expected of a given position, but what the employer will "settle for" once he sees who applies for a position. The more we have set expectations for a given job title, the more trouble is created when a job does not fit the assumptions. I am a "legal secretary," and there is a large body of assumptions about what that is, what I should know, and what I should expect to be paid. But a law firm might be huge, with lots of benefits and support staff to do a lot of the routine tasks for me, or it might be a one-lawyer office, where I am expected to do everything, even water the plants. If there was a "standard" salary, or even range, for such work, they would end up having to use different definitions, or put roman numerals after the title: become more rigid and beaurocratic than they already are. Let's leave room for a prospective employer and employee to work it out for themselves.