Does potential employer ask for your current salary and ask you to show proof? Or having an expected salary in mind is enough?

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I. Interviewers/HR will ask for current salary. Up to you whether you divulge it. They will know roughly what the salary bands at your current firm are.

II. HR/an external firm will ask for payslips as part of the onboarding checks. You could technically get PDF editing software to redact the salary amounts. They're mostly checking that you truly work at your current employer.

III. Post-joining, Payroll Dept may have an insight into how much you earned when they're dealing with your tax code and setting you up in their payroll system.

Your hiring manager is not part of the departments in I, II or III (unless you're joining an HR or Payroll function 😁).

Now, given how inefficient any of those three functions are on their own, I would be INCREDIBLY surprised if they had any process to make data available between themselves, join the dots, and say "Oh, OP lied!"

I'd be even more surprised if they shared those insights with the hiring manager... Unless the hiring manager is desperate to get you in and pesters HR for details to make sure they make you an offer you won't refuse.

And by this point, they've hired you. The decision on what benchmark salary to offer you and what maximum salary they can offer was based on your skills, desirability and other market intelligence.

TL;DR: Always push expected salary by at least 20-30%, if not more (esp. at lower career levels). Otherwise what's the point of changing employer?

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I usually give a range. For example if my min is 70k I would say my range is 65-90k. I am afraid that if I give a high number, they would refuse to give me an interview

No one ask for the proof of your current salary. They ask for current employment proof though .

They always ask what’s my current salary. For example if I earn 60k now and I want to get 90k for my next role, I don’t want them to know that I only earn 60k and expect a 50% jump

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They ask for payslips

In UK they don’t care what your current salary is, what they care about is whether you are worth the salary you are expecting from them and whether they have the budget for it.

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I’ve always been asked what my current salary is and what salary I’m looking for, never been asked for proof however. Up to you whether you give them a figure or push back/ give them a range instead

Yeah exactly. When someone asks for my current salary at interview stage I just leave that unanswered and tell them what my ideal salary based on my skill and experience etc would be at [firm you're applying to].

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