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Because they're hoping that someone will offer to work for less than they would have been willing to pay. If they already set the price floor by disclosing the salary, they eliminate hope of hiring someone for less.
It never ceases to amaze me how little people know about how hiring actually works. Even if you are not in a hiring authority position you absolutely have to research how people are actually hired.
Yes, some mom & pop operation may not disclose the salary because it is too low in comparison to fair market value.
For all other entities the salary ranges are either known (Federal, State, Local government jobs), or they are published with the job listing, or it is assumed that a company pays market rate for the job so there's no need to publish the range.
Companies have budgets for each fiscal year. In those budgets there is a certain amount of money allocated for a specific position. If the position is vacant then there is a salary range. As a sweeping generalization the high-point of the salary range is the low-point multiplied by 1.5.
The salary range allows companies to hire an experience range, where a junior would receive the low point, a regular would receive the mid-point, and a senior could receive the high-point of the salary range.
Contrary to popular belief the company is not trying to ********* out of a few thousands dollars a year. Why?
Because hiring is expensive. Vacancies are expensive. Turn-over is expensive. Those things are much much more expensive than a few thousand dollars in salary.
Sometimes, in highly competitive markets, salaries are not published to not give the competition a leg up on hiring.
Asking for a salary requirement is brilliant because it's easy to weed out people who's salary requirements are too high. This is done electronically so it is very inexpensive to the employer to not consider folks who's salary requirement is too high for the position.
The people who post here saying that companies hope to hire someone for less have a victim mentality, where they believe that everyone is out to screw them out of what's due to them.
Good employers don't try to hire people at rock bottom prices because good employers want their employees to stay and not spend the first day on the job browsing job boards for new jobs already.
Yes, there will be cases where you submit your app with a salary requirement and you will receive a "no, thanks!" email. If that happens quickly you can be sure that your salary requirement was likely to high. But so what? You wanted a certain amount of money and they didn't want to hire someone for that amount. Big deal. Move on.
I totally understand what you're saying, but from my position, if I were in HR, I would prefer to reach out to the pool of applicants who are a) looking for the type of job I have posted, b) have salary requirements between $X to $X.
Why waste time receiving 175 applications, when you could get 95 who still want the job based on the salary noted?
It seems so simple.
The worst ass*** are in the recruiting business. Not only HR, but those above who dictate requirements for new candidates. Therefore any logic that makes sense to you (and me) isn't a factor there.
Do not think in rational terms when questioning their actions.
The OP and everyone - simply accept the results (of job hunting) as they are. Don't analyze or try to understand - you're wasting your time. Better move forward.
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Originally Posted by RarelyRelocating
It never ceases to amaze me how little people know about how hiring actually works. Even if you are not in a hiring authority position you absolutely have to research how people are actually hired.
Yes, some mom & pop operation may not disclose the salary because it is too low in comparison to fair market value.
For all other entities the salary ranges are either known (Federal, State, Local government jobs), or they are published with the job listing, or it is assumed that a company pays market rate for the job so there's no need to publish the range.
Asking for a salary requirement is brilliant because it's easy to weed out people who's salary requirements are too high. This is done electronically so it is very inexpensive to the employer to not consider folks who's salary requirement is too high for the position.
Brilliant...
You know who "assumes", don't you?
I suggest never assume anything, in particular minute details such as salary.
yes, there will be cases where you submit your app with a salary requirement and you will receive a "no, thanks!" email. If that happens quickly you can be sure that your salary requirement was likely to high. But so what? You wanted a certain amount of money and they didn't want to hire someone for that amount. Big deal. Move on.
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