“What’s Your Current Salary?” Is a Red Flag That You Don’t Want to Work There

Asking for your current salary is not a legitimate question and should be treated as such

Jean-Michel Fayard
Better Programming
Published in
6 min readOct 22, 2020

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Drawing of someone agonizing over the question “What is your current salary?”
Drawing by Katerine Salazar Gonzalez.

The Dreaded Salary Question

Here is the context: You are on the initial phone screen call with someone from human resources.

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