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I hate this to the point that I just want to start a job listing site where mentioning a salary range is required to list. There is no excuse for it. I can understand that you may want to keep a range depending on certain skills/experience but if you cannot provide a ballpark range, you should not list a job position. Plain and Simple.

On a similar note, kudos to employers who list a salary range specially in the whoishiring posts. I always upvote every post that lists a salary range.

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if you banned "competitive salary" they'd simply exaggerate the figure, then at the negotiation stage state "oh we say that to attract people"

been there before... wasn't happy

Maybe whoever creates a site that requires compensation numbers will also allow applicants to leave feedback on the employers to reduce chances of that happening. (I can only hope!)

Then they are just lying and should be warned. I understand it is difficult to monetize sites like this where you restrict employers with rules but that is an ideal situation for job seekers.

I see more situations where they list a high upper salary but also high (optional) requirements. People who don't meet the optional requirements don't get above average pay.

One interview I had people adding on expectations and requirements during the interview. She talked about how they were looking for someone who knew big data in a mobile job, which is not something normally expected. And that salary is lower for people who don't meet those expectations.

I think Angel's list requires a range to list jobs on there.

Correct, but it's largely useless because the swing in the range is almost 80% in many cases and in 1 particular company all jobs titles with widely varying roles and skill requirements have the same range (see below), which makes no sense.

ex: https://angel.co/stripe/jobs

  1) Engineer San Francisco · Full Time · $100K – $180K · 0.0% – 1.0%
  2) Engineering Manager San Francisco · Full Time · $100K – $180K · 0.0% – 1.0%
  3) Security Engineer San Francisco · Full Time · $100K – $180K · 0.0% – 1.0%
  4) iOS Engineer San Francisco · Full Time · $100K – $180K · 0.0% – 1.0%
  5) Frontend Engineer San Francisco · Full Time · $100K – $180K · 0.0% – 1.0%
  6) Site Reliability Engineer San Francisco · Full Time · $100K – $180K · 0.0% – 1.0%

I wonder if the companies are doing this to get around having to fill out a salary range on angel.co

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