Is it safe to share salary on Glassdoor?

Does Glassdoor no longer show salaries?

It did for me!

Earlier this year, Glassdoor added a new feature: it allows employers to hide salaries on their company pages. What happened? The answer is, the salary information only appears when you're on the company's website, and only if you sign up for alerts from Glassdoor. You'll still be able to find the salary information by searching for company names. If you find that salary information you'll be able to click on it and see more details. But if you just search for the company, you won't get any salary information.

Update 9/24: Glassdoor has reached out to explain this is a beta version change and is currently rolling it out slowly to users, so don't panic. We'll update this post if anything changes.

I was surprised at first because when I signed up for my free account, Glassdoor did show salaries. But I assumed it was something they did to attract more employers. You can see from my profile that I work for a nonprofit, which means we're not allowed to discuss salaries. When I searched Glassdoor, however, I didn't see anything about salaries.

Maybe it was all just an error, and they would eventually make it show salaries even if you aren't signed up for alerts. But as time went on and I saw no change in that info, I started getting suspicious. At some point, I decided to sign up for alerts and see what I would find.

And yes, the salaries were there, hidden behind a small grey icon. But I noticed something strange when I clicked on the grey icon. Unlike usual, when you click on the grey icon, a window pops up telling you the company you clicked on can't talk to you because they are a government contractor.

But why are they hiding salaries in their Glassdoor profile? I thought I'd ask for some help. So I emailed them. They quickly responded with an explanation.

What is the most reliable salary website?

The most reliable salary website is one that accurately tells you which of your offers is best.

It's the only source of information that doesn't lie.

Unfortunately, as it turns out, the best salary websites are terrible, and this makes them unreliable for the same reason that Google is unreliable: they have biases that make their information worthless. The problem is, the biases of the most reliable sources are hard to see because they're baked into the way the data is collected and reported.

When a salary website wants to show you which job is best, it takes its data from an employer. The salary website knows that when it shows you which offer is best, it will probably get a job application. The salary website knows that if it gets a job application, the job applicant has accepted its offer. The salary website knows that if the job applicant accepts the offer, they'll probably apply again later for the same position. The salary website knows that when it shows you the next best offer, the job applicant probably won't apply again for the same position. So if it shows you the best offer, you'll get the job application. And if you don't get the job application, the next best offer will be the one that's best for the company.

The salary website knows this because that's how it works. The only thing it doesn't know is how many job applications the salary website will actually get. But it does know that it'll get a lot of them.

Why the problem with reliability comes from a bias toward what's best. The bias towards what's best results in two ways. First, the best offer will typically have a higher salary than the next best offer. Second, the next best offer will be the one that's best for the company, and that means something good for the company.

Because of these biases, the most reliable websites will show you the best offer, not necessarily the best offer for you. In fact, by showing you the best offer, they are showing you something that isn't best for you, even though they think that it's best for you. This makes the most reliable websites unreliable.

We can prove this bias.

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