[kevinskii]

I gave quick answers to your numbered questions in a separate comment. Regarding your "question to the broader HN community" about getting salary info, maybe the best way is to ask companies to provide it themselves, and offer evidence that this will lead to a higher number of quality applications (assuming it does).

Crowd-sourced salary info is really useful for the industry as a whole, but not for specific companies. It's common for salaries to vary by up to 2X for people at the same grade level.

[tima101]

Thanks for this info!