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Hi all. I am trying to determine if I am being compensated fairly. I am a tax manager (about to start my second year as manager) and have been with EY since staff 1. I was promoted to manager in June 2020 (during covid) and received a 7.5% raise. The class above me has mentioned they received much higher raises during their promotion years. My base salary is now approx. 97K. Any insights would be extremely helpful. Thanks!
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My experience with jobs that have no range is that the company isn’t entirely sure what they are looking for. I also assume it’s easier to pay as little as possible because they didn’t give a range. A lot of salary transparency laws are going into effect, though, so hopefully, not seeing ranges will be a thing of the past.
Agree with you here, or they are trying to lure in a large pool of candidates with a lower salary.
And then when they do include a range, it's ridiculously large. I recently saw one for 75K-200K. what?
Yes I have had this too
Glad that some cities are beginning to require companies to reveal the ranges in their postings
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They hide ranges to lowball you. If they post "$60-80K" and you'd accept $65K, they lose negotiating room. They're testing what desperate candidates will accept.
Some states now legally require salary ranges (CO, CA, NY, WA). If a company's still hiding it where it's not required, that's a red flag they're playing games.
Best move: Ask directly in first conversation: "What's the budgeted range for this role?" If they dodge, you know they're planning to undercut market rate.
Do you ask about salary before or after the first interview?