How early is too early to ask about salary when interviewing? First meeting w HR? With the CDs/ECDs? Or do you have to wait all the way till the end? Just went through a long interview process only to find out they never had enough to hire me without me taking a pay cut 😭

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Oh yeah. When I was younger and more shy about this, I’d wait. Guess I was afraid of seeming like I was in it for the money. Now I’m unapologetic. I don’t start a conversation with money, but somewhere in that first chat, I’ll ask for a salary range.

Definitely don’t wait until the end - it doesn’t serve either party, and frankly HR/recruiting should be eager to mention it, since it wastes their time too.

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You can bring it up at the first call with the recruiter. If not do it with the recruiter after meeting the first creative and getting a sense of the role. CDs and ECDs generally don't discuss this with you. They seem to avoid mixing money talk with creative talk. Just like we generally don't deal with money with the clients.

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Damn! That’s annoying, sorry you spent so much of your time!

Following cause I need answers to this too!

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I wouldn’t be interviewing if I didn’t know the salary

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It’s always been brought up early in my experience, so everybody knows we aren’t wasting each other’s time. But I haven’t changed jobs that often and now I freelance, so I wouldn’t know if my experience is representative of the whole

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