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If I had to guess it's because salaries will vary WIDELY with the location and cost of living, and relative size of the tech industry in each city. Looking at the website right now I see a huge amount of job posts in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Africa, as a category, is an immense place.

For two jobs doing exactly the same role, salaries would be very different in Cape Town and in Accra, Ghana.

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That's an even better reasons to post them.

During my research phase, I was looking at job posts (in africa) on other sites and hardly any would post salaries. And also in general, most job sites dont show salaries. But a few people have asked for this and it would make sense even if just a few companies would make them available.

It's a negotiation tactic.

What I found is that extremely high performers will simply ignore posts without salary information. So it only really works if you are looking at hiring average devs.

Good point, yeah ill add this to the to-do list to figure out how best to do this

Exactly this, not saying I'm a high performer but I have been lucky enough that I can simply ignore jobs that do not come with an upfront discussion of salary range.

Additionally if you have that data, it gives you an estimate of the average salaries people are being hired at (if you have a way to get feedback when someone is hired) and that is valuable data for better understanding the market.

Yeah that's the exact reason I asked, especially where some of the jobs are remote.

Salary is a metric to compare jobs where the skills required and roles are identical, not to mention important for basic survival.

I will add the option for a salary now in fact! :)

Excellent :)

Best of luck with your launch.

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