April 2022
Use LinkedIn as a resource for salary data. As I’ve mentioned before, LinkedIn offers a resource for salary research that you can access by going to Linkedin.com/salary. You have to share your salary on an annual basis to receive continued access to their data. They do promise to keep your salary information private and encrypted. They also pledge that it will not display on your account and no one outside of LinkedIn can see it, including recruiters.
Besides their salary tool, there are tons of job postings on LinkedIn and some of them include salary ranges. While you don’t want to lean on job postings as the main method in your job search, they can offer real-time data points to consider as you collect information to establish a fair market rate.