Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings

Re:Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings by Chinjut on Friday June 10, 2022 @02:49PM (#31697980)

It's incredible in these comments that so many of you who work in the industry on the employee side are arguing against having more transparency for the employee, and for having more leverage in the negotiating process for the employer instead. I want all the advantage as an employee that I can get. Any secret withheld from me is not to my advantage.

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Re:Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings by hcnews on Friday June 10, 2022 @04:46PM (#31699186)

In 2022, you have to assume a fair amount of activity on popular boards/forums/subreddits/twitter etc. has been purposefully influenced by nefarious parties.

In more concrete terms, I do think there are a fair amount of bots/paid-commenters on HN who push for anti-progressive agenda which helps maintain status quo.

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Re:Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings by ketzo on Friday June 10, 2022 @05:08PM (#31699386)

I mean, you don’t even need to reach that far.

Many commenters here are either currently on the employer side of a salary negotiation, or imagine that they will be some day.

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Re:Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings by Epa095 on Saturday June 11, 2022 @03:40AM (#31702714)

The temporarily embarrassed millionaires ;-)

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Re:Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings by diob on Friday June 10, 2022 @07:13PM (#31700383)

It's the old, "what if one day I'm the billionaire, then it might harm me!" combined with pride if they already have a high salary (in their opinion).

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Re:Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings by kccqzy on Friday June 10, 2022 @03:25PM (#31698402)

I think for most people external tools like levels.fyi are already good enough in that they provide a salary range with sufficient accuracy. Of course these same people would hope that the other candidates haven't heard of levels.fyi so that companies can lowball them to have more budget for the salaries of those who have heard of levels.fyi.

It's just selfishness, not collective action.

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Re:Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings by rat9988 on Friday June 10, 2022 @04:22PM (#31698972)

It's misguided selfishness because other people raising their price would raise yours too.

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Re:Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings by mrsalt on Saturday June 11, 2022 @04:37AM (#31702934)

You also see this sentiment with other topics related to hiring, like working 2+ jobs. Somewhat amusing.

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