Really ? Then why does every recruiter I talk to want to know what my current salary is? And then, why do they ask if there’s “any flexibility”?
OF COURSE there’s flexibility. Upwards. But IT salaries have been tanking, because companies prefer young kids, fresh out of college, with low salary expectations and dumb enough to accept deathmarch mode on a regular basis, and NOT for an emergency or crisis.
And the young kids may be energetic and tireless, we older IT guys and gals have experience, trained judgement, and real world knowledge of what actually works in practice, and what sounds good, but ends up as a nightmare to implement what turns out to be limited, if any, functionality....
Seems to me any job should have a dollar value assigned to it. If they are not getting the right candidates keep raising it until they do, it is not rocket science.