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Spin this around so a company can test the water with a salary range and desired qualifications and get a percent of candidate pool coverage... Basically what fraction of an anonymous but hopefully representative group of programmer would consider this salary (a) acceptable and (b) below or above current salary.

Bonus point, filter by geography.

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Better bonus point, allow providing 2 different salaries based on whether 100% remote work is permitted. If I have to move to an urban center where the cost of living is 3x where I live now, I need more money than if I'm going to stay where I am and work remotely. Plus, companies stupid enough to limit themselves to a geographically constrained talent pool have to be a lot more impressive to interest me.

I'd like to strengthen the case for this suggestion. At this point in my career I put an extremely high premium on being able to work remote. I wouldn't even be tempted to relocate again except for salaries that completely price me out of the market.

I'd be willing to take a non-trivial pay cut off my most recent salary for a fully remote position (possibly even a larger one for the right company/position), but would require an equally significant raise (plus relocation expenses) to consider relocating anywhere.

This would be huge. Having both used recruiters to find work and to find candidates, from the employer side it's one thing for a recruiter to say "You need to raise your salary range by $20k to attract what you're looking for" - after all they get paid a percentage of base salary.

It'd be something else entirely we had a tool where increasing base salary by $20k showed us that it doubled the number of interested candidates within a given skill set.

I have some wiggle room on my dev jobs so I'm offering $X-$X+20 for someone with $Y-$Y+5 yrs of experience. I'm perfectly open to an increase and I work with a recruiter whom I trust, so I usually ask him if I'm low or high and he's honest with me. So much of success in things coming from not working with scumbags.

Are you hiring any .NET folks? :)

Sorry, php and golang developers and sysadmin types. But I hired two guys who were .net guys who were tired of it, they say that the grass is greener, sky bluer, and their wives and girlfriends are more beautiful. ymmv.

Very interesting. I agree this can be huge help. And we are working on delivering a similar experience too.

Thanks for the suggestion. We are trying different ways to generate anonymous list for employers.

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