The number one rule of HR is you don’t want employees knowing the salaries of other employees.
It’s actually a firing offense.
When you advertise the pay, you are telling the existing employees what the new employee is going to be paid.
Government is the only entity that posts salary ranges, and that’s because when you work for the government your salary is public information.
Well how in tarnation is someone supposed to know if the position pays enough to meet their needs?
My salary is public information because I work for the state. I had an interview with a corporate entity and they laughed when I told them what I made for what I did. They pay 25% more for something that is 10% of my job.
HR is the worst department of every single company.
I think it is also because they want you to set an expectation first. That gives them a better starting point than just throwing out a number themselves.
Government is the only entity that posts salary ranges, and that’s because when you work for the government your salary is public information.
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I can tell you this is not true at my place of work. Open positions are posted with a salary grade and there is a table which shoes the low, mid, and high salary for each grade. Granted, for some positions the range for a Grade is pretty wide.
“The number one rule of HR is you don’t want employees knowing the salaries of other employees.”
Where I worked when inflation was going crazy in the 70s, the new recruits were getting far more than the people with ten years working for the company. The owners thought they were keeping that secret, and they also pulled the “10% maximum raise” bull pucky. All the old timers found new jobs and left within a month. The company ran it’s assets and credit to zero and vanished. I met one of the owners selling mattresses at Macy’s.