I absolutely love the notion of salary transparency. But the reality might prove to be quite different. Competition (seeing what other people get paid, on average, for the same job is a form of competition) drives costs down, or in this case, wages. I see this more as a tool for employers than employees to readjust wages downwards moving forward, in particular for new entrants. Great for the company, bad for talent. Although this might prove to potentially close payment disparity gaps between men and women doing the same job (which is a great thing, cheers to the free market!), it may ultimately drive wages down overall. It might become that much harder to justify why you should be paid more than the average when negotiating your salary. Yes, this is solving an inefficiency in the job market, but tech hubs (for instance) like San Francisco and New York are irrationally expensive places to live, and are unlikely to adjust with wages over night. It would be much better if this were factored with a cost-of-living metric. After all, salary is relative, and therefore kind of irrelevant. What matters is the percentage of your income needed to cover the basic essentials, like rent and food. An iOS developer in San Antonio making $80,000/year is objectively much wealthier than an iOS developer in San Francisco making $120,000/year.
@rueter Thanks Steven for your thoughtful comment. I think many Economists have different opinions here, however. Currently employers have good access to this info but employees do not, and t/f wages are potentially deflated. More symmetric access to this information should actually increase wages overall. See, for example, this post from former Secretary of Labor, Seth Harris, on the subject: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/h...
@miscalzoncillos we currently only have data for the US, UK, and CA. Please stay tuned as we continue to scale out internationally!
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Great tool from well-known "job"-company will be much usefull for a lot of people.
1. Let users from any location report their salary. I am already OK to share data with you (even if you are still will not provide insights for me now) – in such case you could collect data for future rollouts.
2. Why can't I choose an area? I believe managing partner in IT company will definitely have different salary than managing partner of some small education center, etc.
Love this! Anything that will assist with Equal Pay.
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I was excited to try this out, but was disappointed that I could not find salaries for Mobile Developer. Detroit, Miami, Seattle, and surprisingly San Fransisco showed no results at all.
@_rg2 try "mobile engineer" (which shows up as a Similar Title for that query). Looks like we have data in SF, and hopefully we'll have for Detroit, Miami, & Seattle soon after launch.
https://www.linkedin.com/salary/...
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@sandlerryan I see the results now for SF, and I'm pretty happy about that. The data is pretty relevant and accurate. Incorporating interchangeable titles to make it easier to find data would be helpful too. So far so good though, keep up the good work.
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Is it for US only cities? I'm trying Barcelona and no luck
@sandlerryan there seems to be a bug on mobile web (specifically Chrome on iOS 10) - I hit Login at the top right (then have to hit login at the bottom), put in my credentials and hit Login and it doesn't redirect me back to the salary home. I need to edit the URL and refresh to show that I am logged in. The mobile web seems to be a little buggy.
Overall - how does this differentiate from Glassdoor?
I've been waiting for this! Wonder what's the results going to be for Community Manager salaries. :)
P.S. Wish you could add Taipei (or Taiwan) to the list.
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