Slipsius: If hiring management of any sort does look online and sees you talking about your current salary, I don't doubt that you will be given a very firm talking-to. If they see you talking about past salaries and they get upset, if it were me I wouldn't be as concerned. At that point it's just data.
Employers do not want employees talking about salary because it empowers them to ask for more money. In general, it is OK to talk about them, barring making people jealous. It's gauche to volunteer your salary to someone who didn't ask, but if someone asks I have no problem telling them.
I see it everywhere. Back when I used to work at some small firm just doing data prep stuff I was speaking to a supervisor who was pretty laid back about everything but he did tell us once that its a sackable offence to talk about salaries. Of course he was probably talking rubbish given how hard it was to fire people back…
You should never talk about it not to your friends or anyone. How else are these companies supposed to make a profit, if they cant collude to fix wages.
In sweden you can request the information about anyones salary through paperwork from the government, but otherwise most companies are the same as anywhere else, no talking.
What the title says. Is talking about salaries online frowned on by HR and those those in hiring positions? I've seen a couple of salary threads around here, and there is one going on over at 11secondclub.com about it as well, about if cheap, fresh talent is killing the industry. I've shared my experience in different…
It ranges so widely and is based on cost of living it's almost irrelevant to people outside your city? Isn't that what the Game Developer Salary Survey is all about? Gathering data from across the board and straining out all the names. I think its important for companies to be straight forward with their pay scales and to…
lots of countries don't even have such surveys or any data about game dev salaries so talking to devs seems the only way to get some idea of what how much you could be making. after my last job interview i briefly talked to 2 devs smoking outside of the studio. one of them seemed curious about how much i asked for. he…
I have actually had many people tell me their salaries at past companies, but once they become your coworker they prefer not to talk about it. It's all about respecting privacy, mostly. If people are curious about ballparks for salaries, they could always check the surveys each year.…