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Comment by HeyLaughingBoy

5 months ago

The overwhelming question I have when reading these responses is "don't you guys read salary survey data when you're looking for a new job, or at annual review time?"

But then we're not sharing other people's personal information.

  • Are they actually sharing personal information? From the OP it sounds like they're sharing aggregate data. (I've never heard of Pave.)

  • Isn't levels.fyi or similar just the employee side of the coin?

    • See if you can figure out the difference between volunteering anonymized data with the exact level of granularity you choose vs. having all of that data and more involuntarily collected and sold in secret as a consequence of merely participating in the system we are all coerced into if we don't want to be homeless

But the salary data that’s available online to me as an employee is imperfect and extremely limited. This would be like if every employee of a major company sent their exact salary and demographic information to levels.fyi, which would never happen because it’s an insane sacrifice of privacy