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Hello Sharks, My HR interview is scheduled with an US MNC for one of the niche skills in MarTech space for an IT consultant role. May I know how much salary should I expect? I am expecting around 35 to 45 LPA My current CTC is 18 LPA and YOE 10 years. This is a fully remote position
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My teammates recently got drunk and told our salaries. Does that count
A bunch of Google employees shared their salaries and found sizable wage gaps for women and POCs. Now there is a lawsuit and Google is being investigated by the department of labor. It seems that if agencies were more transparent about salary bands they could score diverse hires and prevent employees from sharing wage information with each other.
I found out that ours are so huge they are essentially meaningless. That said, I also found out that as a minority woman I was making 30k+ less then men on my exact same position and responsibilities (and equivalent experience) and here's the real hit, was making the same or less than a couple of men in more junior positions. I made a huge stink and they gave me a 25k increase within a couple of weeks but still am furious at that gap for a couple of years and how hard it now have to work to even catch up compared to those men.
I’ve never seen it. Generally in the interest of the business (agency) to keep it a secret from us plebes so they can continue to lowball us on offers or raises.
Director 1 - Good for you for fighting for what you deserve. It makes me furious that men in more junior roles made more than you for so long. Such bulllshit. Not only did they make more salary, but they can retire faster than you as well. It's infuriating how unfair it is.
Thanks OP - it was really a hard time tbh. I felt pretty betrayed by a company I loved. I'm still with them but that feeling is still there and I'm going to be focusing on finding a new job in the new year.
The easiest way to find out is to ask people and telling people but speaking about salary is considered taboo. Which is funny because not speaking about it only benefits agencies?
Not intentionally. But occasionally you get a scope of work that makes it easy to figure out
God, this sounds so incredibly boring, but is so dang important.
Siftly just released a big report on media agency salaries and it cites that on average males make 24% more than women ($112,703 vs $90,705). Google “siftly media agency salary report” and it’ll come up. You could use this as a reason why you’re curious but I highly doubt any agency will release the numbers to its employees
This would be my first union demand
Yeah, legally we are protected and can share salary info with each other, it's just awkward to ask. Kudos to the dudes at Google who contributed to the salary report, kudos to the women for being determined enough to bring the issue to light.
If only there were an anonymous forum to provide salary by role and gender (company name wouldn't be in your best interest)
Thank you SS1, I appreciate that. Good luck in your own fight!! Let us know how it goes!
glassdoor.com may be helpful
Would love to see by gender too.
HR typically shares updated salary bands by position for each office every few years. For the most part, it's been pretty accurate for everyone I've actually talked to about salaries.
I confronted my manager first. I went in strong and also talked to HR. I told them I expected an answer within 2 weeks. I demanded an answer as to how and why this happened and laid out how much business I'd brought in and how I'd added to out company's expertise areas. And for context to my situation, I also had to point out all the ways that my job had the same or more responsibilities than these men and how we had had the equivalent background, time at agency, all on an upward path etc. Anyway, the thing is, I expected to be able to have a conversation and negotiate for what I wanted, but they apparently knew that my old salary was bullshit because they rushed to just throw that money at me. But to be honest, I should be at another 15-20 to be in the same ballpark and I was aggravated that they didn't give me a chance to negotiate. In the end the point still stands that I now have to work three times as hard to get to an equivalent place as my male co-workers performing at or under my level. 😑
I think the main thing is I put them on the defensive by telling my manager I expected an answer from our managing director or COO. And I was blunt in saying that this was NOT a good look for any company, but especially one that goes on and on about diversity
I just inquired and got nowhere.