I am a woman who could be very much interested in the role. But the lack of an upper bound for compensation is putting me off a bit, it might help to include that.
On average I’d expect more men to be put off by this than women though!
But the lack of an upper bound for compensation is putting me off a bit, it might help to include that.
Could you comment a bit more about why this is? Are you concerned it might be high or low? It seems plausible to me they might not really have an upper bound.
Most of the time where an upper bound is mentioned in job ads (e.g. LinkedIn) it’s less than <1.5 times the lower bound. So I’m implicitly assuming the upper bound, though not mentioned, will be in the same ballpark.
Perhaps this is wrong and I’m supposed to interpret no upper bound as ‘very negotiable, potentially the sky is the limit’. But that possibility didn’t occur to me until you mentioned it.
I do interpret no range at all as a plausible ‘sky is the limit’ though.
The salary range in Oxford is £49,000 to £77,000, depending on prior experience, skills, and location. There may be flexibility in salary for exceptional candidates. [...]
I am a woman who could be very much interested in the role. But the lack of an upper bound for compensation is putting me off a bit, it might help to include that.
On average I’d expect more men to be put off by this than women though!
Could you comment a bit more about why this is? Are you concerned it might be high or low? It seems plausible to me they might not really have an upper bound.
Most of the time where an upper bound is mentioned in job ads (e.g. LinkedIn) it’s less than <1.5 times the lower bound. So I’m implicitly assuming the upper bound, though not mentioned, will be in the same ballpark.
Perhaps this is wrong and I’m supposed to interpret no upper bound as ‘very negotiable, potentially the sky is the limit’. But that possibility didn’t occur to me until you mentioned it.
I do interpret no range at all as a plausible ‘sky is the limit’ though.
FWIW, CEA solves this issue by saying: