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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own op... by pc86 on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @08:20AM (#29724553)
It's a nice thought but it doesn't have any bearing on reality. No other market in the world works that way. A company wants to charge as much as it possibly can. A person in need of a service wants to pay a company as little as possible. There's sometimes a range where those two values overlap and that person can become a customer. It's all about perceived (not actual) value, which is heavily influenced by marketing and sales.

If you can't tie your actions directly to cost savings or revenue increases you're just blowing smoke up your manager's ass about value created anyway. It's all hand-wavey negotiation and negotiation is almost entirely based around leverage.

Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own op... by mulmen on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:01AM (#29734105)
Oh I thought it was a marketplace.

Salaries aren’t high in the bay because houses are expensive. Houses are expensive because salaries are high. There happens to be a concentration of talented and highly compensated people there. That doesn’t mean they will settle for less elsewhere.