berkeleyjess

This is Jessica, Data Scientist at Hired again...

I'm glad you've had a great experience on Hired and that it has changed your life for the better.

I'm surprised that your experience is that the initial salary offers (at the interview request stage) are significantly different than your final salary offer, because I can tell you that this is not the experience of most people on our platform. The majority of the final salary offers are equal to or greater than the offer given at the interview request stage. On average the final salary offers are slightly higher than the interview request offers across all Software Engineering Hires on the Hired platform.

Hi my name is Jessica and I am the data scientist at Hired who pulled the numbers for this report.

The way the Hired platform works is that companies must submit an initial salary offer when they start the interview process, and so all interview requests have salaries attached to them. Of course these offers can be negotiated later, but for the vast majority of our hires on the platform, the final base salary is equal to or higher than the initial offer given at the interview stage. Therefore we feel confident that this salary data is representative (if not a slight underestimate) on 2015 salaries for software engineers.