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These remote job aggregator sites have been popping up everywhere lately but virtually none of them solve the problem I face routinely - transparent compensation. Companies often post stuff like "competitive pay" or "market rate" but that means nothing. Further, conversation regarding pay with these types of companies usually comes up after an initial screen, a tech screen and maybe a take-home assignment. All that just to find out the job pays $55k? Yeah, no thanks.

If you can create a job board that has pay listed upfront and prominently (nothing cagey like a massive range), then not only would I sign up for the service, I would pay for it. Somewhere in the neighborhood of $10-$20 a month.

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Exactly. I live in a HCOL area (not SV, not US). Local salaries are very competitive with SV and I need to know that the salary offered for that remote position makes sense compared to a local job.

But companies get cagey when asked directly and usually says something like “we don’t discuss comp before you take our code challenge/first round of interviews”

Well I’m not sinking 5–10h into your process only to find out you’re offering 1/3 of what I can make working 5 minutes away from home, wasting everyone’s time.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm thinking of ways to implement this, as getting the salary data for each listing is probably the hardest thing to do at the moment. This was just the mvp and 'll be adding more features soon!

I think you need to combine the data from these boards with levels.fyi or Glassdoor for salary data. Also if you are employed in FAANGMULA companies, you need to be aware that the compensation from your remote board jobs or unknown startups will mostly never reach your current take home .

I understand that. I’m not asking for these jobs and small startups to match FAANG level pay. I just want transparency. There’s a big difference between $50k and $150k and both are still well below FAANG pay. Just be upfront is what I’m saying.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into that. Do you think it would add value even if the Salary info is "industry average" from glassdoor? Or would that just be sort of false advertising, if you catch my drift?

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