Brian, I understand your frustration from experience. I'm more frequently in the hiring side though and don't know how I could list a salary easily. I often am looking to hire a senior developer but get lots of applicants who I don't consider to be senior. However, if I find someone good, I'm not going to pass them up as a junior engineer. Obviously though, I wouldn't be willing to offer senior salary, so it would be difficult to advertise more than a really broad range.
Saying "$50K to $100K" doesn't seem much more helpful. I usually say something like "competitive pay with good benefits". I'm curious, do you have any specific suggestions? What would make it feel like you'd want to look into a job listing more? Kevin On Jun 20, 2011 9:13 AM, "Brian J. Rogers" <[email protected]> wrote: Today I was looking around at possible job openings, but not really committed to finding a job. I'm just keeping an eye on what is available. It seemed like every job posting I found always listed "Depends on Experience/DOE" under the pay. Am I the only one that gets irritated by this? It seems completely arbitrary and gives the impression that my experience cannot have a set value. I understand that in most cases the more you know and can do the more you get paid, but can't a minimum at least be given? I've talked with clients when doing freelance work and some 'valued' my experience at $50 total for a project that was a small customized CMS from scratch because of hosting limitations. $50 flat. I've talked with others that it was a few hundred for installing and customizing a photo gallery script. I just feel like without some notion of what an employer is willing to pay, I'm not willing to put forth time to find out. Am I the only one in this and I'm just crazy, or is it a shared feeling? --Brian _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
