I found this website today: https://www.whatsthesalary.com/
It shows the salary range that employer is willing to pay for the advertised position. Did you know that? I thought to share it with you guys. Apparently, all the job posters have to give a salary range to Seek to post the advertisement so that Seek can recommend them the appropriate candidate.
If everyone already knew this, ditch this topic!
This gives a rough estimate of what your employer is thinking. You can always negotiate.
what's the point of posting a random salary? It's not like it's free to post on seek
It's not necessarily intentionally a random salary but like a lot of forms where there's a compulsory question, people will often just pick whatever there is - particularly if there's no intention for the answer selected to be displayed.
Very cool resource !
The internet is a wonderful place.
Thanks for sharing! I always knew you could play around with the salary filters to figure out the range but this is much simpler and faster
The salary estimation is purely based on the job title and nothing more. I put in URLs for ads that specify the salary and it couldn't work it out because the job titles were slightly different. E.g. two titles joined by "&".
I don’t think that’s true. I put it a few roles with the same title but from different companies and got different results. I also put in a couple of listings which I actually know the salary range for (prev and current employer) and they were bang on.
Maybe some specific titles are different. Putting things like Full Stack Developer from multiple sources showed the same. Even my own companies' seek listings in WA and NSW were exactly the same for the same titles with the salaries way off.
The tool itself isn't doing any estimation - it's working out what the salary band the recruiter/employer included in their job advert for filtering. Some employers put deliberately broad ranges just to ensure it shows up on lots of search results, whilst others put in a more realistic range which is reflective of where they are targeting even if the actual salary may not be in that range (eg they are planning to try and talk you down).
That's super usefuI! I just used it with a job I was thinking of applying for. It was higher than expected. Thanks OP ❤️
When you get the position report back with its accuracy. Good luck.
It was higher than expected.
I suspect it might be the case for stacks of roles. The purpose of this 'salary range' question is so that seek can determine what searches to show that job ad.
When the user inputs a range, Seek tells the user what the typical/average range other posters have selected for that particular job. This typical /average range (or slightly higher) will be likely where most people do their searches so, logically, specifying that range would cause the ad to be returned more frequently in search results.
Logically, if a company was willing to pay more-than-usual for a position, you'd think that they would actually advertise that fact to attract more applicants. But instead, they've deliberately chosen NOT to publicly display the pay range that they've specified.
Really cool find! Thanks OP~
My job was bang on but then again the information is freely available on the internet.
Pretty useful, I used to do this manually. Take any job (I searched for an accountant in Melbourne), first one to pop up is this one - https://www.seek.com.au/job/59395874
Find something in the job that's searchable (title/company) and you can find the same job again and play with the ranges. Fortunately because that job puts the job number in the ad it's very easy. If I search https://www.seek.com.au/53957256-jobs/in-All-Melbourne-VIC?s… - that searches a salary of $0 to $100,000, job doesn't show up. But if I put $0 to $120,000 like this - https://www.seek.com.au/53957256-jobs/in-All-Melbourne-VIC?s… , it shows up now. So I know the bottom end. You can actually test it further, change the URL to 119999 and the job doesn't show up, so I know the exact dollar.
Then do the opposite from the other end, put in the max range, https://www.seek.com.au/53957256-jobs/in-All-Melbourne-VIC?s…. Job doesn't show up. But if I put it back to 150k-350k+ it suddenly does show up.
I used to do something similar on realestate.com.au in it's infancy to gauge a property price. Probably not relevant today.
It still works today. Best use is for when the sold price says contact agent.
Nice OP 👍
Do they publish their methodology to make sure they are polling a truly representative sample of people? You don't even need to poll that many people to be sure you are getting representative samples, but if you poll a lot of the wrong kinds of people then you can't ever be confident about anything that specific. This is why Neilson ratings are so accurate; they have a scientific approach to who they poll, and their numbers are measured up against advertisers who expect a certain kind of measurable response from each impression.
How can you be sure this service isn't giving you the wrong impression about their true salary range, causing you to under value yourself when you apply? I like their web design tho.
What do you mean by polling people? Not sure what that has to do with this
Thanks OP
actually a fairly useful tool - a lot of ads dont have a salary mentioned it would stop you from wasting time chasing it up if they company was paying rubbish
Great find! I have tried it and it is helping me to see the salary range each company is offering.
Great resource. Not a definite way of working out your salary but a great guide for indicative salary. Thanks for sharing
Very useful. Thanks OP!
Yes I did already know that, thanks.
If they don't put the pay rate in its probably crap money.
I've been using this for years, it's great. Helped me negotiate near the top of the band for my current position.
Having to give a salary doesn't mean it's the correct salary….