>I think publishing salaries has several benefits. For one thing, it removes the used car salesman
>approach to hiring. One result, which is more important, is that it can help eliminate wage
>disparity due to differences of gender or level of negotiating skills.
If you publish salaries, then aren't you just shifting the negotiations to which salary bucket you deserve to belong to? So instead of absolute money, now we're negotiating with fluent tiers based on other employees salaries (John makes 200K and I'm closest to John in terms of ability, so let me convince you how similar I am to John).
It will always comes back to demonstrating your value.As a developer, you're capable of creating logic that can literally scale to bring millions of dollars of value to a company. Stop talking about PHP. Stop talking about Rails. Start talking about the money you make for your company.
Who care about the middle-aged white male programmer who's too introverted to ask for a great compensation? Who cares about the woman who's too timid to assert herself?
They're their worst enemy. And it's not your problem to wait for the rest of the pack to get their negotiation-shit together.
More money on the table for you.
There's so many opportunities for devs right now (take a look at the recruiter emails sitting in your inbox). Learn a little bit of negotiation skill, and you're better than 80% of your peers.
Demand what you deserve. Take your kids on an amazing adventure. Buy the home you've dreamed of. Save some money and only work 6 months out of the year. And don't apologize.
If you publish salaries, then aren't you just shifting the negotiations to which salary bucket you deserve to belong to? So instead of absolute money, now we're negotiating with fluent tiers based on other employees salaries (John makes 200K and I'm closest to John in terms of ability, so let me convince you how similar I am to John).
It will always comes back to demonstrating your value.As a developer, you're capable of creating logic that can literally scale to bring millions of dollars of value to a company. Stop talking about PHP. Stop talking about Rails. Start talking about the money you make for your company.
Who care about the middle-aged white male programmer who's too introverted to ask for a great compensation? Who cares about the woman who's too timid to assert herself?
They're their worst enemy. And it's not your problem to wait for the rest of the pack to get their negotiation-shit together.
More money on the table for you.
There's so many opportunities for devs right now (take a look at the recruiter emails sitting in your inbox). Learn a little bit of negotiation skill, and you're better than 80% of your peers.
Demand what you deserve. Take your kids on an amazing adventure. Buy the home you've dreamed of. Save some money and only work 6 months out of the year. And don't apologize.