Been passively looking and the salary ranges on job postings in this industry are all over the place. I saw two Sr. AD roles this week, one at $85k and one at $130k, seemingly the same job. Does anyone else feel like you need a decoder ring to figure out what you're actually worth on the market right now? How are you navigating this?

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It's always simple, you're worth whatever you can get someone to pay you. With widely varying salary ranges like that you have to assume there's some strategy behind what companies will post. Some want to attract a lot of eyeballs, so they'll post a high salary. Whether they'll actually offer that to anyone is another matter.

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That’s actually really smart on thier end. Great perspective thanks!

Honestly, it feels really arbitrary. Different companies have wildly different salaries for the same job and it's very confusing across the board.

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Very confusing!

Sometimes I just look at companies within a industry like health to gauge what they’re paying for certain marketing roles

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It’s a good practice!

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