Job Advert - no salary

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Why advertise a job without a salary attached? The application questions include asking you to put in current salary and expected salary.....

This is a off shoot of a university so an established organisation and not a lone employer inexperienced at advertising vacancies.

Would it be rude to email and ask them the salary before I go to the effort of the form etc?

I use to do this.

I said no point in wasting my time and yours. 9/10 I got a straight answer.

I got a rejection when I sent an application for a job without a salary, it asked for my current salary and expected salary.

reason for rejection my salary was outside of their budget. 🤣

I would message and politely ask for the salary.

I always ignore any job ads that does not feature the salary.

Can be many valid reasons aswell as the pessimistic "they just want the cheapest"

Don't want competitors or clients to know what staff are paid, don't want to put people off applying if they wanted more, don't want to have to get into "but you advertised it as £x" if they decide to take a chance on someone who doesn't tick all the boxes, confidentiality reasons for existing staff in the same roles.....

No harm in asking for a really rough range - I'd pitch it as just want a rough idea of the level of role and if its worth applying but you won't hold them to it etc etc.

I nearly cut my nose off to spite my face over jobs not advertising salary. Glad I didn't, current job no salary advertised for a mix of the above reasons. I got £7k more than I would have been happy with!

This drives me utterly mad. It is literally the point of people working, to get paid. It makes me so suspicious, male could be paid more than female etc.

This drives me potty!

It's so annoying! Even more so if you go for an interview and they still won't talk about it! Are they expecting we'll do the job no matter what? They could at least state a range if it depends on some factors like experience or skill level.

It really puts me off applying and wastes everyone's time. I wish jobs would list how many days annual leave they offer too.

It's a management position. I agree and am inclined to believe it's for the reasons given above. But having been self employed running my own company for 15yrs, I don't have an idea of recent salaries in this position, just what I've paid myself until the sale of the business.

I am however, prepared to lower my salary on the grounds of no longer working so many hours per week. In fact, part time would be ideal but doubt that would be an option with this position.

I've posed the question.

I went for one and said my salary expectations were in line with salaries of staff of commensurate seniority. Turned out they were offering nearly 3x my current salary! Nearly got it, but at the last minute they decided they wanted the post to go to someone in the US, and relicating was not an option for me.