Questions About Salary Range: Which Range Do You Want?

[Intrepid_Chef]

I saw a job listing that requests a "salary range." My question to that is "which range do you want?"

Due to budget cuts, my hours were cut, though my hourly wage remains the same ... In addition, I've been there FOREVER and have no idea what I was making a decade or more ago when I started.

So, does my range need to include the wage when I started to now? The range over the last few years? Or the range this year, even though the top number is not my current salary?

 

[chefann]

I'd interpret it to mean the range you WANT from the listed job. Unless it's specifically identified as your salary at your current position.

 

[susanr613]

I agree with Ann. If they want a salary history, thats different.

 

[pamperedpals]

I was just going to say it is the salary you want.

 

[pampchefsarah]

AND, make sure that STARTS at what you would be making at your currently hourly if you were working 40 hours!

 

[pamperedpals]

AND, make sure that STARTS at what you would be making at your currently hourly if you were working 40 hours!

Good point.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

If they ask for a range, I say, "Magic Chef."

If they ask for a salary I want, I say, "$1,000,000.00 to start, but I'm negotiable."

Asking for salary requirements on an initial inquiry is the most stupid thing in the job market. It's how they winnow out resumes but they probably miss out on the perfect applicant (you) for either being undervalued or overpriced.

As for the million dollar request - if they toss me out based on that answer, I don't care. I don't want to work for a jerk with no sense of humor.

 

[Intrepid_Chef]

I just checked ... they are asking for a "resume and salary history."That completely stinks ... how am I supposed to remember what I was making a decade ago, and why should it matter?It was in that section of "Indeed" where you can refine your search to call up jobs paying 30K a year or more. This one is in a different field and it's in North Canton, which is a bit of a drive for me, but about the same as my drive to my current job, just in the other direction. Saw another one that pays 80 to 90K!! That would be amazing! Like I hit the lottery!

 

[janetupnorth]

I just checked ... they are asking for a "resume and salary history."

That completely stinks ... how am I supposed to remember what I was making a decade ago, and why should it matter?

It was in that section of "Indeed" where you can refine your search to call up jobs paying 30K a year or more. This one is in a different field and it's in North Canton, which is a bit of a drive for me, but about the same as my drive to my current job, just in the other direction.

Saw another one that pays 80 to 90K!! That would be amazing! Like I hit the lottery!

Contact the local Social Security Office and look up your income there.