Comment on Companies lower salaries in job postings as pay transparency laws take effect

• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I kinda want to give them the benefit of the doubt because that’s just odd it seems as if someone just fat fingered the 3, because 75-95 makes a lot more sense

  But then again corporate gonna corporate soooo

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  • hightrix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, this level of job regularly pays 200k plus or minus a bit. So I doubt it was a fat finger unless they meant 175-395.

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    • DoomBot5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe they did fat finger it, but they didn’t care because they weren’t being paid enough?

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      • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Minimum wage, minimum effort

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    • LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I usually average out the two salaries and use that as their “intended” starting pay.

      So (75 + 395)/2 = 235k a year avg starting salary for an average applicant.

      The top end I consider the pay if the applicant meets all the requirements listed in the job ad.

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      • hightrix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Good call. That’s exactly what I do. I haven’t applied to a job like this m, but it seems like a good enough way to estimate.

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  • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s no accident. I was out of a job for half the year and saw this so many times. In states where the laws aren’t specific enough, posting a huge rave is how companies comply with the letter but not the spirit of it.

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’ve never shopped for housing in California, have you? $95k doesn’t give you rent for a room in a quad.

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well I wasn’t really saying it was a fair or decent wage lol just that it made more sense for the range to be a difference of 20k instead of 320k lmao

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      • sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Completely agree. I had the same logic, only since it was CA I figured they fat-finger-dropped a “2” in front of the first number.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s way too low for CA. But 395 is director-level.

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  • bouh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s very fat fingers to type a 3 next to a - or a 9.

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• qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What that says to me is they are not looking to fill a specific position. They are collecting resumes for whatever internal backlog and, should they have a need, they’ll fill any necessary positions at those salary brackets from their resume pile.

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