Issue with Salary Bands
I’m bummed that there are no categories below $40K in this year’s salary survey, and that the bands are so broad at 10K. We pay life-changing salaries in developing countries, where a difference of 3-5K is massive.
To put this another way: I was excited for the opportunity for our large team to skew the data in a positive direction in The Philippines and India, creating upward pressure for others. But we can’t do that within the broad “under 40K” category.
For instance, we pay a starting salary of over $23K in The Philippines, where support salaries average under $10K.
I'm not sure how we would include salary bands all the way down to $20K (and at a breadth of less than $10K per band) since we want to avoid a long list of bands. Should we go back to the days when we asked folks to input their actual salaries? I'm not sure what caused us to move away from that, so I'm not sure if the need I'm expressing here outweighs that or not.
Happy to discuss if needed! :)