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Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

Bonus: Why Don’t Employers Include a Salaries in Job Posts?

Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

Mac Prichard

Careers, Business

4.8630 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

On July 14, 2016, Ben Forstag published a blog post on Mac’s List, “Why Employers Don’t Include Salaries in their Job Posts (and What You Can Do About It).” This sparked a lengthy and lively discussion in the comments section. We decided to continue the conversation on this week’s Find Your Dream Job podcast.  Mac, Ben and Jenna discuss why employers don’t post a salary range in a job posts and share tips on how you can work around this all-too-common practice.

Our tips include:

  • Researching other job postings by the company.
  • Using Glassdoor.com to come up with an estimate.
  • Asking the hiring manager, recruiter or personal contact you know at the company.

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1:19.3

Welcome to Find Your Dream Job, a podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want and make a difference in life.

1:28.2

I'm Ben Forstag, managing director of MaxList. I'm here with the MaxList team, Mac Pritchard, our fearless leader, founder and publisher, and Jenna Forstrom,

1:33.3

our community manager. On this bonus episode, we're going to talk about one of the biggest frustrations people encounter with online job postings, the all too common practice of job

1:38.8

announcements that don't include a starting salary. So a few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on this topic explaining the reasons, good and

1:46.8

bad, why so many employers don't list the salary range.

1:50.6

This post generated a lot of comments and conversation.

1:54.7

So I thought we would discuss this on our podcast.

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