Chris_Ashworth

You're right, I need to include information to show how close my guess was; I'll try to edit it in the coming week to include that.

Correct. (At the moment.) (We're not saying we have to keep it that way forever, and don't expect to.)

Fair point, I may revise the graph if I have time in the coming week.

We've discussed the long term, and we all agree: it's not something that will stay like this forever. In the long term I don't think it would be fair to maintain a perfectly flat pay structure; we won't always hire people with the same set of skills or experience or responsibilities.

I don't expect to keep this system forever, but it's a good fit for us at this particular moment in time. I expect it will change as we change.

That inference is correct: I reserved the right to veto if it was wildly over our budget.

Why are the dollars the most interesting point? I find the concrete numbers less interesting than the relative result.

At any rate, we're not really obligated to share our numbers on our blog. :-) Might be reasons we'd want to keep those private, no?

1 founder, less than 10 employees: http://figure53.com/company/

Hi Harkins,

Thanks for the feedback! This is the first time we've ever created a job listing, so I'm sure we've done some things poorly.

When it comes to the salary, we honestly don't know what the right number would be. I know it will be different depending on experience, but we don't know what's fair to offer since we haven't really done this before.

I've always tried to offer as much as we could afford. I have often actually offered more than the person asked for.

Hi jxcole,

Hm, we tried to make it as clear as we could up there at the top, in big ol' 32px font:

"Who we're looking for: An awesome web developer."