Decent source for pay metrics?

[TheLaggingShaman]

Hi guys,

I've looked around and local pay/salary metric sites don't seem to have much data i.e. PayScale, not sure if it's very up to date / the web developer category seems broad

Are there better sources I'm missing, or could you guys provide some knowledge on expected pay levels against experience (and tech stack if you know enough).

Appreciate any help

 

[cguy]

You're not going to find much online. The one company I work for has hundreds of entries on Glassdoor, and they're completely off from the truth (a fair chunk of people enter nonsense just to get access). My previous company had thousands of entries - these were stable, but heavily biased downwards, because only the newer employees and junior employees tend to enter data - the more senior people manage to get real data from HR, headhunters, intercompany HR stats, etc., so they don't fill things in to get access, and they're also aware that the info they will get from the site won't reflect their position (fewer samples at higher levels, more variability at higher levels, and there are more reliable data sources at higher levels).

I would say that your best bet would to give some specifics about your locale, qualifications, experience and see if anyone on the forum is in the know (and then take the average).

 

[halfmoonforever]

Salary ranges etc are usually a per company/individual thing IMO. The ranges you see online are averages paid in the industry, however I've seen "Senior" positions requiring 5+ years of experience at something ridiculous like R25k/mo whereas the real-world pay for the same thing is way more.

Get your HR department to determine the payscales, they should have some industry knowledge/tools that will give them an idea of what is out there, match it to the company's budget and have adverts go out to the affect

 

[TheLaggingShaman]

Thanks guys.

I would say that your best bet would to give some specifics about your locale, qualifications, experience and see if anyone on the forum is in the know (and then take the average).

Fair points all. I moved into web development without a related qualification. Worked 9 months so far as a junior/support dev in Cape Town at a largish SaaS company. I think the difficulty I'm running into is determining what a reasonable salary is on experience alone. I feel pretty undervalued regardless, but it helps to determine how much a characteristic e.g. a qualification would subtract from the norm.

Salary ranges etc are usually a per company/individual thing IMO. The ranges you see online are averages paid in the industry, however I've seen "Senior" positions requiring 5+ years of experience at something ridiculous like R25k/mo whereas the real-world pay for the same thing is way more.

Get your HR department to determine the payscales, they should have some industry knowledge/tools that will give them an idea of what is out there, match it to the company's budget and have adverts go out to the affect

Such advertisements sound very predatory. I wonder how frequently they succeed? Your second point I will take under advisement for when I am one day on the other side of a payslip.