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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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Julie Stickler http://heratech.wordpress.com/
Blogging about Agile and technical writing
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