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My HireRight background check looks 99% perfect except they couldn't verify my salary. So I got an email from the company that I'm applying to to see a pay-slip to verify my salary. There seems to be a discrepancy between the salary I provided them with, with the salary on the pay-slip. When I estimated my annual salary, I included around 5K earnings from outside work and I gave them documentation for that. Now I'm waiting to hear back from them. Would that be an issue?
Maybe. It is not a huge discrepancy...but this reads like you included an additional job that you have on the side with the income that you make from your main job....
Maybe. It is not a huge discrepancy...but this reads like you included an additional job that you have on the side with the income that you make from your main job....
Yes, I told them that I included both of them but that was after they saw that my current job is 5K less than I reported.
I just to say that the manager who I spoke with on the phone said that he was impressed with me and so were his coworkers. I just don't want this 5K discrepancy in salary make the company withdraw the offer. In the end, who makes the decision, the HR or the manager?
HR is going to make the decision. The report will come back that there was a discrepancy, as you did inflate your salary. The results will have a column that has what you reported and it will have what they were able to verify. There also may be notation that you declared the additional 5k later. Yes, this could be an issue, depending on the company's policy for report discrepancies.
As I said above, HR will make the decision and it will be based on their internal policies and how much of a discrepancy is tolerable.
Rather than withdrawing their offer, consider the possibility that they might reduce their offer by $5K, in response to this news. Would that make you decline their new offer? Would you respond with a counter-offer of your own?
HR is going to make the decision. The report will come back that there was a discrepancy, as you did inflate your salary. The results will have a column that has what you reported and it will have what they were able to verify. There also may be notation that you declared the additional 5k later. Yes, this could be an issue, depending on the company's policy for report discrepancies.
As I said above, HR will make the decision and it will be based on their internal policies and how much of a discrepancy is tolerable.
HireRight wasn't able to verify the salary so they asked me and I provided them with a paystub that shows a 5K discrepancy. Can they overlook this if everything else is perfect?
HireRight wasn't able to verify the salary so they asked me and I provided them with a paystub that shows a 5K discrepancy. Can they overlook this if everything else is perfect?
I know this is not the answer you want, but it is not up to the background company. They report everything that is reportable. A discrepancy in what you reported and what they were able to verify is going to show.
I deal with background report results 5+ times per week. What will happen is the report will come back detailing what you said you made and what they were able to confirm. The company WILL send this info to the company you applied with. They may or may not include that you amended it to state that you had another job. As, on the form you signed stating that the info was all true, you said you made a certain amount with a certain job.
Each company has a threshold...and if they are a good company it is consistent (although info they will likely not give you, so you will not be able to find out what their threshold is) and will apply to all. If the company has a policy of allowing discrepancies in employment dates they will also have a range (no one ever gets this right) of ok...if the date the employee gives is within 2 months, etc, it will be cleared. They may or may not have any discrepancy range for the salary. There is not a way to know.
does it even matter? when i applied to last job, i told them i wouldnt work unless i got paid at least $x. it was higher than last pay at the time, but they knew they had to offer me that to draw me away, they did. whether i made $0 before or not, i wouldnt have worked there if i didnt get what i wanted. just like how current job made an offer based on what they want and is up to me to accept it. i accepted, but i knew with what i brought to table i didnt have much to negotiate with and since it was even with former pay i didnt push for more. and didnt lose anything.
just have never been asked what i made, nor prove it. i give them what pay i want in order to work there. they give me what they will pay. thats about it.
Who decides to hire me, the hr or the manange? What if the manager really wants me but the hr has the make the decision? I know for sure that the manager wants me but I don't know how he will feel about the salary discrepancy after he finds out.
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