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Salary Survey Mania - how can I find an accurate answer?

  • 11-02-2015 12:16pm
    #1
    whodumaflip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭


    Hi there,

    Recently started looking for a new job in marketing(ish) role and decided to research what salary I should be paid before getting invovled in recruitment process's - just as a guideline and benchmark

    So tried the old google search and there seems to be a hundred and one different salary surveys out there, many with conflicting advice, figures and some seem to be from back to 2010, and I assume salaries have moved a bit since then.

    Someone the other day did mention to me a live or real-time salary guide/survey but I can't seem to find it.

    Any ideas on that would be appreciated or if anyone knows of the site that was mentioned to me that might be useful as well.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    whodumaflip wrote: »
    Hi there,

    Recently started looking for a new job in marketing(ish) role and decided to research what salary I should be paid before getting invovled in recruitment process's - just as a guideline and benchmark

    So tried the old google search and there seems to be a hundred and one different salary surveys out there, many with conflicting advice, figures and some seem to be from back to 2010, and I assume salaries have moved a bit since then.

    Someone the other day did mention to me a live or real-time salary guide/survey but I can't seem to find it.

    Any ideas on that would be appreciated or if anyone knows of the site that was mentioned to me that might be useful as well.

    Thanks

    Look for an equivalent public job and benchmark your experience against its salary scale.


  • #3
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,802 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    whodumaflip wrote: »
    Hi there,

    Recently started looking for a new job in marketing(ish) role and decided to research what salary I should be paid before getting invovled in recruitment process's - just as a guideline and benchmark

    So tried the old google search and there seems to be a hundred and one different salary surveys out there, many with conflicting advice, figures and some seem to be from back to 2010, and I assume salaries have moved a bit since then.

    Someone the other day did mention to me a live or real-time salary guide/survey but I can't seem to find it.

    Any ideas on that would be appreciated or if anyone knows of the site that was mentioned to me that might be useful as well.

    Thanks

    whats your chosen career, qualifications and experience?


  • #4
    Godge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,727 ✭✭✭✭Godge


    How long is a piece of string?

    All of the surveys are based on nominal descriptions of a role and are very hard to compare one with the other.


  • #5
    creedp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,815 ✭✭✭creedp


    oppenheimer1 wrote: »
    Look for an equivalent public job and benchmark your experience against its salary scale.


    If you take on board many of the contributions from private sector contributors on here you should discount the equivalent PS scale by at least 50%


    Edit - OP apologies for the flippant comment. Good luck with your job hunting!


  • #6
    whodumaflip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭whodumaflip


    Thanks for all the advice - I'm still trying to source the one that I either heard/rea about - seem to recollect it was some sort of live/real-time salary source.

    The reason it sticks with me is that I know it wasn't Payscale or Glassdoor, these are both global sites, it was from what I recall something similar but definately Irish based or focused.

    I'll keep looking though and thanks for all the help - appreciated


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  • #7
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,735 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Offhand the Morgan Mckinley one seems to be fairly accurate. The Works & Jobs Forum might have better feedback.


  • #8
    andrew
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,372 Mod ✭✭✭✭andrew


    You could get in touch with a recruitment firm, they'd probably have a decent idea of how much you're 'worth'.


  • #9
    whodumaflip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭whodumaflip


    Thanks for all your help and advice

    - I think I've found the site that I either read about or someone mentioned to me - it seems to be called mysalary - logical :) when looking for information about My Salary.

    It seems to be a fairly new Irish domain and focused web site.

    Once again many thanks for everyone's input


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