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Why are salary or yoe ranges in job descriptions a thing? Maybe I'm just especially unimaginative today, but I can't crack it. And everytime I see them in a JD it makes me irrationally angry. Oh also gpt-4 is being a bitch and not willing to play along with why this is a stupid practice, and just hitting me repetedly with empty corporate speak.
Salary should be a
maxnot a range. Why would you tell a employee the lower bound? The lower bound should be 0 or negative infinitity.Same with years of experience. Why is it not a
min? The upper bound should be infinity.For years of experience: one of the major costs of employees is turnover. You don't want to hire someone who is going to quit before they learn where the bathroom is. If you hire someone with 10 years of experience for a super junior role, there's a good chance they'll jump to a better position before you even integrate them into the team.
For salary, consider that because it's typically expressed as a range, if I saw an ad that only offered an "up to" I would assume that number was bullshit and that the average wage for the advertised role was significantly below industry standard. Same as a clearance sale advertising you could save "up to 70%" means the vast majority of items are 15% off and a few random items are 70% off, a position that pays "up to $100k" would be assumed to pay less on average than one that pays "$60-100k."
Now for either you could say, well just negotiate, but that's ignoring all the friction in the system.
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