It's Thursday, and this is the Ramsey Call of the Day.

Part of the Ramsey Network.

Joining me today is Ramsey Personality, Ken Coleman.

Today's question comes from Amy Nebraska.

She writes in, I have a job interview coming up for an entry-level position as an assistant manager for a coffee chain.

If salary is not brought up by my interviewer, when is the best time for me to ask about it?

You ask about it when they offer you the job, because presumably, not always, but presumably

when they offer you the job, Amy, they're going to tell you what they are offering the job

at as an hourly rate.

And at that point, then you can discuss that. But I would not ask about it early on. I always tell people, Dave, in the interview process,

you want to convince that hiring manager that you will help them win. We've got to remember that.

There are people, too, and they're looking for somebody that's going to help them win and

so there will come a time in this particular question where the uh the hourly rate the salary

whatever that is is going to come up i would not bring it up completely through the interview and you're

walking out of your first interview and you still have no idea what the pay is, you don't ask?

Well, fair question.

But in this situation, you have a good idea what an hourly rate is going to be at a coffee shop.

You have a pretty good idea.

And you can find that out pretty easily.

You have a ballpark range.

I mean, it's not going to be something like $7, $8, $9 an hour. You're probably going to be in that

low range would be 10 with the minimum wage politicizing that's going on right now. You're probably

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