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

• 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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      • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        We need to eliminate the expectation that underpaid workers will or should bust their butt for the potential of a raise.

        You treat me right and pay me well (a sustainable income) then I’ll move mountains for you. But treat me inhumanely or pay me a pittance and I’ll assume you wish I wasn’t here.

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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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