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8 pointsjampoole17 comments

I'd make sure to approve each entry before it shows up on the site or to give an option to flag it by the user.

Good data is the core value of this site if it's littered with jokes then no one will trust the site & contribute to it.

Yep, exactly this! I already have flagging on my list of TODO's which is currently at the top of that list. Til then I'm the filter. I'm allowing it to be a little more free right now just to get my foot in the door with data. Thanks!

How do you plan to moderate entries that don't look like obvious jokes but might not be true either?

Boeing, Engineer, California, USA, $260,000 sounds legit but don't know how reliable

Quick and Dirty Tips, Senior Software Engineer, Detroit, MI, USA, $220,000 is probably a joke

I feel the exact same way about those two salaries listed. Thanks for noting that.

When the site gains more traction and authority I'm shooting for more honest than bad. Hopefully, it will be obvious looking at the averages.

Then when I add flagging (probably this weekend) I'm hoping that will really help solidify my opinions for removal (then I'll gain thresholds for grounds on removals). The flagging will either be tally based or vote based. Also I'm considering adding commenting on the flag or just in general commenting on any salary provided. Might even show std, med, etc.

Thanks for your input!

Right now I wouldn't consider any salaries listed there to be reliable, people are probably just testing the site out. My honest opinion would be to load initial data yourself using some legitimate sources (glassdoor could be one, but you can google it) instead of relying completely on crowd to build your database from ground up.

You should show some really good data to begin with.

But overall site looks slick!

good luck

So far a couple entries are showing locations other than US, but with salary in US$.

Just wanted to note you can change the currency by clicking the currency icon (not sure if that's obvious to anyone)?

Its bit buggy, I was able to enter negative salary. also needs some display consistencies like only USD amounts are displayed with a $ and others with currency ISO3

Ah, that was you:) I just noticed those negative values were being allowed. Thanks for doing that I'll fix that up. I need more validation for sure.

With the $ display I thought since the default on posting is US$ that it would be more obvious to mean USD by default in the display. I can easily change that to be US$ instead or something more uniform. I was also planning on making a converter per currency display to show real market value conversions to any currency.

What currency format would you think people would prefer? I could straight up do symbols and all?

For currency the three-letter ISO code (USD, CHF, ...) is pretty standard.

https://www.iso.org/iso-4217-currency-codes.html

The site is localized en-US so the way it's displayed is accurate to that localization (in showing other currencies, other than USD, to be in ISO).

The better option here would be defaulting the site to the locale of the users browser and/or just localizing the whole site translations and all.

I'd like to get more feedback on this before rolling anything out unnecessarily.

Cool, what about the whole gender pay gap?

Would make it more interesting being able to add it together with the salary data...

Ya, I definitely considered it, but then also had the thought not to discriminate on gender so wanted a level playing ground. I'm also not sure about adding too many fields and over do it.

If I get enough request for it I'll definitely add this as an optional field.

Will this handle duplicate Employer field entry ?

That field is case sensitive for now. I'd like to get more data first, but I can edit the entries easily if they are similar.

I'd like to provide a autocomplete dropdown for Employer and Title in the future, but I didn't want to have a limited set in the short term.

you probably would want to build the employer list by yourself instead of waiting, that would be much faster to build and cleaner, otherwise you are gonna get a lot of junk and dupes.

Thanks for your suggestion. I totally agree and I'm going to add that soon.

Job Title as well, cause that's a finite list.

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