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Common_Screen9450 t1_j5rvj5z wrote

Reply to comment by KatinkaVonHamhof in Harvard Job Salary by [deleted]

Terrible advice, clearly you don’t have experience with negotiating a higher ed salary within a set band. To most younger people, they will offer within the first third of the band, and will be reluctant to budge based on their own assessment of equity across pay within the same band.

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Kitty-Karry-All t1_j5t8lxl wrote

This is an important point. They don’t decide salaries arbitrarily. I spent years working in academia as a researcher and there was an annual equity review/adjustment for all employees. If an entry-level person, for example, was making significantly more money than their similarly qualified peers, the school provided a salary increase to the peers to keep it equitable; no one ever got a salary decrease for equity reasons. I remember my job interview where the hiring manager asked what I wanted to make, he laughed when I told him, and said HR authorized [low end of the range]. HR determines this based on what similarly qualified people at the same level make.

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KatinkaVonHamhof t1_j5rw3tk wrote

Weird take. This is my actual profession. But you can stay at the bottom of the band if u want

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Common_Screen9450 t1_j5rx3xr wrote

Just because you work in HR somewhere, does not mean you have any knowledge of how salaries work in higher education, which is a highly specific field with different conventions than corporate America. Of course no one wants to be at the bottom of a salary band. But based on my experience actually working in this field I can tell you that an entry level candidate who asks for the top of the band will be removed from consideration.

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