If you want to know how much (or how little) you’re making compared to your peers, check out this new iPhone app.
Called Salary Checker, offered gratis in iTunes, it harnesses data from international recruiter Robert Walters.
The firm taps data for the app from its global network of offices in over 20 countries across the fields of accounting and finance, banking, human resources, information technology, legal and compliance, sales and marketing, secretarial and support, engineering and supply chain and procurement.
Is it useful? Not so sure – most times this kind of information just serves to make one feel underpaid and grumpy.
Jobs are rarely cookie-cutter identical across companies and people are always cagey about what they are getting paid just as companies are loath to disclose how much they will pay for certain positions. A crowdsourced version might be more interesting than one from a recruiter.
Would you download it? What am I missing – why do you think it’d be useful?
Nicole Martinelli is a San Francisco freelance writer who heads up Cult of Mac Magazine, our weekly publication available on iTunes. You can find her on Twitter and Google+. If you’re doing something new, cool and Apple-related, email her.
7 responses to “Salary Checker iPhone App Gives You Aggro to Go”
Surely its a good pointer as to whether you could be earning more i.e. look for a new job or suggest to your manager that you get a pay rise? not a bad idea, agree that crowdsourced would be better though.
Also it’s a good way to check that if you are overpaid to keep schtum…
In the U.S., the only city it supports is New York.
This has very poor reviews in the App Store…probably not even worth having it’s own article on the site.
Interesting and useful post