So create a context. Suppose you're a junior developer in Slovenia and want to know how much your peers are earning. Create a pool named something like 'Slovenia junior dev position', enter your annual sallary and post the link to the pool here.
The only thing that kind of bugs me with this app is that the amounts have to be expressed in USD, so i have to recalculate them back to my own country's currency when viewing the results, otherwise, nice app :).
It'd be cool if you also showed the currency converted for where the person is located, maybe in brackets next to the dollar amount. I'm in the UK and I'm getting asked to predict in dollars the salary for someone else who is also in the UK.
After the discussion yesterday about how hard it is to know if your salary is comparable to your co-workers, and inspired by nostromo's "trick" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2439443), I decided to implement a website where everyone can compare notes, without having to disclose personal info.
It works by creating "salary pools". When you create a pool you get an unguessable URL (e.g, I created a pool at http://salaryshare.me/8a6e32dd8c9166905db6cfd588044bad). Share that URL with everyone that you want to participate, and after a minimum number of people have given in their salaries, the results are disclosed.
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Thanks for this, yes I think these could be good ideas. Just quickly on d) I meant it would be visually useful to see a table showing the data for the top 5 or 10 countries too, or else you have to hover over each country to see, and then you could show vs 2017 to see if there has been a large increase in a given country for example.
Understandable about salary data, a shame though! Thanks a lot!
Thanks for the feedback. I'm thinking of ways to implement this, as getting the salary data for each listing is probably the hardest thing to do at the moment. This was just the mvp and 'll be adding more features soon!
z0a: Maybe specify that salary/comp should be in USD? Right now most of them are, but it's a little unclear which currency the non-US companies are in.
(Alternatively currency could be specified, but... probably more work)
How does SalaryFairy know what's correct? Just in general?
Someone with a statistics background might have a better idea, but I'm thinking might help to allow users to, in their profile (and have it be optional), enter their salary.
That way, you'll not only be able to show people what other people think they should be making, but you might be able to (once a certain threshold is met) show what people with similar experiences in a certain region are making. And you'd be able to see how close the guesses are to the real thing and maybe figure out a margin of error.
It might also be nice to allow people to put in descriptions of what they did at their workplaces. Someone doing embedded development might get a significantly higher salary than someone doing .NET, even if they have a similar # of years of experience.
Great idea. Why not make the code easier? Start with three letter dictionary words, then four, so on till about eight. Then restart with non-dictionary.
Now regarding knowing friend's salaries; From personal experience I can now say that it is not a good thing. I come from a culture where salary is not well kept secret and you usually know your friend's. This leads to a constant state of discontent unless a] You are on the top b] you are the type of person that can factor in intangibles well (hint: most people are not).
You might be working on a really good project, but the next day you arrive at work you will sit there sipping coffee and thinking how come my buddy is earning double working on a iFart app?
I was figuring I'd just determine the currency based on location but I've added a note into the form to include AUD, USD, GBP etc. in the yearly salary figure. Also I'm sure people will include the currency figure (eg. a euro symbol, dollar sign) if nothing else so I should be able to tell.
Ya, I hear you there. That's actually why I built this, was to help calculate that, but there are so many variables in that calculation, I decided to start with I would just figure out what would be left of your paycheque each month and then users can compare against their US bank statements. Its rough, but hopefully its enough to give people considering making a move enough information to decide.
Don't forget to use `ctrl-f` or `cmd-f` to search for $, €, £, and whatever other currencies you can think of and upvote the postings that contain a salary.
While this sounds quite good on paper, I have a few questions:
- What kind of data are you storing about a user? You mention verification with LinkedIn but what happens if your database is compromised 6 months later and all data is accessed by a malicious 3rd party?
- When checking salaries, I prefer to search a job title and look at the average salary of a country, city, region or a company. Do you provide these features?
- I looked at the demo application and only thing I see is a table with some entries. Unfortunately, this is not very user friendly.
- I would want to see the average salary of a position
- Count of salary entries of a position
- Variance for the salary of a position (min, max, average, median)
- The way to success is to have a lot of salary entries in your database. As a newly established service owner, how do you plan to keep users with your service and providing updates rather than using glassdoor etc. competitors?
- How do you plan to monetize this service?
Please do not see my comments as offensive, I mean to ask honest questions and give criticism.
The only thing that kind of bugs me with this app is that the amounts have to be expressed in USD, so i have to recalculate them back to my own country's currency when viewing the results, otherwise, nice app :).
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