[stopagephobia]

I think he's talking about runn where the compensation honestly looks terrible: $43k as a junior and under $80k as a senior. I wonder if the goal of transparency there isn't to avoid wasting time with the majority of people who won't put up with a salary that low.

[rsavage]

I am sure it’s low in the Silicon Valley. Here in NZ - we are the highest paid tech juniors I know off. Most offer around 60k NZD.

Need to remove your US bias. However - the whole point of transparent is that everyone knows.

If the salary is low for you, you will never apply. But you know exactly what you’ll be paid, and know it’s the same as everyone else doing the same role/level.

That is the benefit to being transparent - it doesn’t have to be the highest paid, it’s simply fair. equal and transparent.

[Aeolun]

Isn’t that still good? Just means they’ll get mostly local candidates.

[noahtallen]

I don’t think $43k is good in most local markets, even for juniors.

[ZephyrBlu]

In New Zealand that is pretty good compensation, unfortunately.