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Not posting salaries always baffles me. I mean, I understand the negotiating advantage. Maybe also wanting to keep salary information quite within the company. But, surely, this is a relevant piece of information for the person deciding to apply.

I'm surprised jobs sites don't enforce it. Only jobs with salary information are allowed.

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You just gave me this idea, I should enforce the salary field for my daily imports for AngJobs(https://github.com/victorantos/AngJobs) Thank you!

nice

I'm sure it must just lead to rubbish applicants. I'd be amazed if anyone with any options would waste their time hunting for salaries when they can deal with companies who at least give them an indicative range. I have literally never applied for a job that didn't have a salary listed, and don't intend to.

Well, first of all, the relative number of times different people apply for jobs in a lifetime throws any kind of average/median out whack^. Some people never apply for any job off a posting. Some apply for hundreds. The former group tends to have more desirable employees.

Anyway… If you look at general job postings on most boards, a large chunk (sometimes majority) don't even have the job in the job posting, nevermind a salary. These are resume gathering exercises by recruiters. "My client is a fortune 5000 company seeking…" People still apply to these.

^ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper...

Indeed, when I applied for my last job if I found an interesting company I'd always check for salary information, quite a few companies have that info on https://angel.co/

If the information wasn't easily available then there was no way I was going to waste my time to apply for a job that might not even be close to the ballpark of what I'm looking for.

I've worked my entire career in Germany, Austria & Israel and not once did I see a job ad advertise salary. This might be location dependent?

Same in Belgium, except for public sector jobs.

At a quick glance, it doesn't seem to be common but not absolutely unheard of either.

http://www.alljobs.co.il/Search/UploadSingle.aspx?JobID=3720...

You can sort and search by salary here: http://www.jobmaster.co.il/code/check/search.asp?headcatnum=...

How on earth do you determine which jobs are worth applying to, then?

I apply to those that sounds interesting (company and/or project) & if both sides want to go on after the interview we discuss salary.

A couple of times this proved to be the breaking point but not that often.

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