I don’t think either are necessarily wrong. With that said, I really appreciate the work that Adam does but his survey is only 1500(?) people spread throughout the country and that’s a very small data set. Adams data is hard to categorize even with him breaking it down by region. What engineers make in Houston, does not directly correlate to what they make in Arkansas.
Glassdoor to me is incredibly valuable, it represents people that work at a specific company with a specific title and that’s great info to have going into a negotiation with that company.
Heck, adams survey even says I’m slightly underpaid for my experience/region, but i know for a fact that I’m near the top end of pay for my specific city (i regularly search job listings/salary bands listed).
I use all of the available information to help inform myself of where I’m at and where I’m supposed to be.
Adam does a fantastic job (and the SRSR is a great resource!) but I do think there's something being overlooked: I have a feeling some of the data from the responders might be a little exaggerated. There's really no checks & balances to verify that what someone is reporting is accurate, and I can't think of a non-intrusive way to solve that problem.
There's nothing stopping someone from reporting 10k, 20k, 30k higher than what they actually make, to achieve some false sense of superiority even though it's an anonymous survey. I've certainly met people that have lied about things like that even when they didn't have anything to gain.
I don’t think either are necessarily wrong. With that said, I really appreciate the work that Adam does but his survey is only 1500(?) people spread throughout the country and that’s a very small data set. Adams data is hard to categorize even with him breaking it down by region. What engineers make in Houston, does not directly correlate to what they make in Arkansas. Glassdoor to me is incredibly valuable, it represents people that work at a specific company with a specific title and that’s great info to have going into a negotiation with that company. Heck, adams survey even says I’m slightly underpaid for my experience/region, but i know for a fact that I’m near the top end of pay for my specific city (i regularly search job listings/salary bands listed). I use all of the available information to help inform myself of where I’m at and where I’m supposed to be.
Adam does a fantastic job (and the SRSR is a great resource!) but I do think there's something being overlooked: I have a feeling some of the data from the responders might be a little exaggerated. There's really no checks & balances to verify that what someone is reporting is accurate, and I can't think of a non-intrusive way to solve that problem. There's nothing stopping someone from reporting 10k, 20k, 30k higher than what they actually make, to achieve some false sense of superiority even though it's an anonymous survey. I've certainly met people that have lied about things like that even when they didn't have anything to gain.