Salary on current job adverts

Sandtree

I'm fortunate that I've been able to work through the current situation however my time here is starting to draw to a close so I have started looking around at other potential opportunities and is it just me or salaries all over the place?

What I am doing right now I think I am very well paid for... I think someone more junior could be doing it and be happy with an average salary for their experience but I have seen a job very similar to my own being offered at 15% more (more than what is already very good). My prior job did pay a bit better but the work was massively harder and so I would say I was reasonably paid for it. I have seen effectively that job advertised again and its 25% less than my current money (and about 30% less from when I did the same job). 

I could understand it if it was a case of "its a buyers market" and so offering low money to everyone but this was two adverts for jobs in the same company and both will be looking for people for at least a couple of years so its not even as if HR have made a unilateral decision. It also feels very short sighted to think you can offer a job at a 30% reduced rate because there is high unemployment and then expect that person to stick around when life returns back more to normal.

Appreciate not in the worst situation yet but how are others dealing with this? Only go for those with a sensible figure? Apply for the low ball ones with the idea that you can live with it and get better in 6-9 months time? Apply for the low balls but state you want more money? If its the latter are you sticking to your guns and asking for normal money or compromising to middle ground.

lincroft1710

Is is possibly a misprint or typo?

Sandtree

lincroft1710 said:

Is is possibly a misprint or typo?

With my messages? There is generally a fairly high chance of both typos and poor spelling... was there anything more explicit you though I'd messed up?

lincroft1710

NOOOOO!!!!

The salary!!!!!!!!

e.g. £17,000 instead of £27,000

Penguin_

Sandtree said:

lincroft1710 said:

Is is possibly a misprint or typo?

With my messages? There is generally a fairly high chance of both typos and poor spelling... was there anything more explicit you though I'd messed up?

I think Lincroft may have meant a typo in the job advert(s).....

Sandtree

lincroft1710 said:

NOOOOO!!!!

The salary!!!!!!!!

Ahh... no. 

So on this one in particular the agent said they had gone back and said that the money was too low for the candidates they want  but were told it is what it is. When I read the ad and saw the money I initially thought it was the job title that was wrong and it should be someone with just a bit of experience but the full specification they subsequently sent me said 10+ years experience and explicitly "this isnt a junior role".

These are just examples though, I have seen many adverts very similar with vastly different values listed to what I would expect... most on the low side and a few unusually high.

lincroft1710

Then either your former employers are being naive and/or stupid or there is some apparently inexplicable ulterior motive

Sandtree

Its the current market... in this industry there are 3 groups… small-medium direct to consumers who pay the worst, small-medium specialist companies who pay middle ground and the big boys who pay the best. Those middle players are normally plus or minus 5% of each other and most pay the identical rate. Occasionally theres a big job where they may pay an extra 10% which brings them to the sorts of rates paid by the big boys. 

Now you have two middle tiers posting for big jobs, one has added 15% which is a bit more than you'd expect but the other is offering 12.5% less than I have ever seen them offer in the last decade (money has been stagnant for a while) for any job. Hence it feels like they are seeing many people showing as "available immediately" on LinkedIn and thinking they can lowball because more job hunters than roles so people will accept it.

The lower paying one is the more interesting role and so would in principle apply for both but its how to deal with their low ball pay range as they ask you to quote a target income (which only takes numbers). Say you'll take the -10% on offer, say you'll go with their normal rate. say you want the normal +10% or something else.

 

[Deleted User]

Yep salaries are up n down.
A 5 month job was advised at 21-24k plus. I actually got through first sift with them whereas a 19k job said no straight away.
The role I think I got found out applying to and got burnt fingers was paying £9.50 per hour. Boss could never be told that...
Another place was hairdressers (who later promised they don’t conduct checks prior to job interview offered and it wasn’t them) was originally paying £10 per hour though I have noticed in subsequent later job postings they have indeed dropped to £9!