How do you find out what the average base pay for the role in current area is.
The range is so wide and confusing.
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The best you’ll ever get is range and midpoint.
@cf my bad...you are correct! I meant employers. Thx!
@c1 I think you accidentally omitted some words, i.e., meant to say something like this: "prohibits employers from penalizing employees for discussing income...."
Or if you live in CA, the state has a law the prohibits employees from discussing income. But then again, you may not like what you hear.
They don’t want you know because they are afraid that transparency might lead to equality.
It used to be a more narrow margin 4-5 years ago but the company had so many different job titles. They made a major shift to consolidate job titles (lot of Business Associate roles) however the salary margins are very wide it can be near impossible to know what starting rate is. A lot depends line of business.
The funny thing is that you think that this info is available to the public or all employees
Even if you see ranges they will say that they are very position specific and unless you are high potential you likely just need to live with it
Best hope is to look at open postings across the country and see what the position is starting at for each area. There used to be HR-produced information by job, level and region of the country. That went away when a new head of HR moved-in like 2021.
If you work in HR and have all the underlying data.
You don’t. Well, not from WFC, unless you’re a hiring manager looking to fill it. I’d say look at sites like Glassdoor and see what they say, but those aren’t necessarily up-to-date.