What to Say When You're Asked for Your Salary History

Re:What to Say When You're Asked for Your Salary History by etothepii on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:04PM (#24901371)

The problem with this approach is that it is fraud. You'll never get charged for it, but it is fraud.

It's also not the biggest delta I've heard about while doing user feedback interviews for our salary estimation startup [1]. We had one user who ended up being offered double the salary he was expecting ($300k instead of $150k). He now swears by getting to the magic phrase, "we'd love to have you on board X, we just need to talk about numbers."

This single negotiation allowed his wife to stop work and for them to start a family.

[1] https://peerwyse.com

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Re:What to Say When You're Asked for Your Salary History by WWLink on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:29PM (#24903631)

Please show me where this is stated in the law.

In California it's definitely illegal for an employer to ask you that information

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

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Re:What to Say When You're Asked for Your Salary History by etothepii on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:39PM (#24903694)

Just because it illegal to ask a question does not mean answering it dishonestly is not fraudulent.

Perhaps there is some argument that as the question should not have been asked the answer can not be material.

Many contracts of employment contain a clause allowing summary dismissal if found to have lied during your application.

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