Salary range in a job advert for a council

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So I'm desperately applying for jobs at the moment and I am seeing a lot that state that the salary is £20-27k pa or £24-27k pa. I would be happy with something around £25+. When a job advert states a range, does it mean that you will start on the lowest with the possibility to progress to the highest, or that your starting salary will be inbetween the 2 figures depending on your skills and experience?

@RunBackwards when I say 'need to be' I mean, I am already on that salary in my current (non council) job

Sorry if I'm repeating something you already know but when completing the form make are you answer all the questions in detail.
For example if it says tell us how you match the requirements of the job description and there are five lines on that JD make sure you respond to each one separately. The firms can take a while to fill in but then provide you with information for your interview.
Good luck

@rose69

Sorry if I'm repeating something you already know but when completing the form make are you answer all the questions in detail. For example if it says tell us how you match the requirements of the job description and there are five lines on that JD make sure you respond to each one separately. The firms can take a while to fill in but then provide you with information for your interview. Good luck

Thank you! I am basically a pro at job applications now, I always make sure I do this :)

We are recruiting at the moment - we will ask for candidates to let us know their salary expectations at the start, they can also provide us with a range. We do this because if their salary expectations far exceed the role, we will let them know they won't be progressing. If they under pitch it - they will be happy because we will still pay them what we believe they are worth.

We do not want our team to feel underpaid and undervalued - we want them to feel appreciated, so we pay well but not ridiculous levels. I recall dh letting a company know that his salary was currently £x (it was public record they could have checked) and after a long protracted interview process - meeting all the partners etc - he was offered the job at 75% of £x and they seemed genuinely shocked that he said no, actually he was really pissed off they had wasted his time - they came back with an additional 10% - he gave the HR dept very candid feedback. This doesn't have to get personal you want a salary, you should ask for it.

As for the range if we were to have something like that in our minds - we'd pitch the salary in level with their skills and experience.

@knickybricks

We are recruiting at the moment - we will ask for candidates to let us know their salary expectations at the start, they can also provide us with a range. We do this because if their salary expectations far exceed the role, we will let them know they won't be progressing. If they under pitch it - they will be happy because we will still pay them what we believe they are worth.

We do not want our team to feel underpaid and undervalued - we want them to feel appreciated, so we pay well but not ridiculous levels. I recall dh letting a company know that his salary was currently £x (it was public record they could have checked) and after a long protracted interview process - meeting all the partners etc - he was offered the job at 75% of £x and they seemed genuinely shocked that he said no, actually he was really pissed off they had wasted his time - they came back with an additional 10% - he gave the HR dept very candid feedback. This doesn't have to get personal you want a salary, you should ask for it.

As for the range if we were to have something like that in our minds - we'd pitch the salary in level with their skills and experience.

Thank you for this. Mad story about your husband - I would be pissed off too! The deadlines for the jobs I have applied for were on Sunday. Haven't heard anything yet but keeping my fingers crossed.

It's hard to know what the outcome is. It's half term, so the person sifting could be having a few days with their kids, (as I am) - we got some CVs last night and normally I get to them pretty quickly but we are away till Friday - I'll let them know over the weekend...so it's not necessarily a bad sign. Best of luck, imo the job market is patchy - recruitment is still tough for us, covid has not affected our business, so we still have to work hard to attract the right talent.