Preempt the recruiters: Settle the facts on role, compensation, and everything else you want from a job.
One of the big pains of being in the market is that you get unwarranted recruitment offers (wrong job; wrong salary range; wrong anything) or you might want to look for something new but don't want to go all green-marked "#opentowork" on LinkedIn.
More and more of the tech world is going all-in on pay transparency (it's even becoming law in the EU)—why not do it yourself, too?
The Pay Transparency Card is a simple Markdown-based "card", or set of facts, that you want to convey when actively (or passively!) job-hunting. It helps you communicate what type of role you're after and what compensation expectations you have before anyone contacts you! Or you just want to feel more confident when you get a call, since you've thought out all the facts already. Or you just want to ward off folks with the entirely wrong idea of what you might want to do.
You do you!
Simple! Use it any way you like. Some suggestions:
- Copy the template into a new Markdown file, update the demo facts, and put it in a public Gist that you link to when recruiters get in touch.
- Copy the template and adapt it to your website or other interactive context so it's easily viewable.
- Copy the template and make it part of your CV.
- Make a nice widget that renders the information on your GitHub page, website, or wherever!
See a Gist demo here.
Feel free to modify as necessary. This should cover many situations, but not necessarily all of them.
# Pay Transparency Card
## Who am I?
### Name
Naomi Nameson.
### Contact email
my@name.xyz
### Socials
- [LinkedIn]()
- [X]()
- [Stack Overflow]()
### Work samples
- [Website]()
- [GitHub]()
- [Medium]()
- [Substack]()
## Position
Software Engineer II / CTO / Staff Engineer / Junior QA Engineer / whatever your desired role(s) are.
## Compensation
### Salary range
_Will be negotiated depending on company, role, responsibilities..._
Minimum €9-11K per month.
### Health benefits
Minimum €500 per year.
### Competency development
Minimum €1000 per year for spending on competency development in any conventional form, such as books, subscriptions, courses, or classes.
Time-off to spend on training and competency development matching at least 2 full weeks per working year.
### Insurance
Yes, coverage during work hours and moving to/from work.
### Occupational pension
Yes, minimum 4.5% of salary per month.
### Paid vacation
6 weeks per year.
### Unpaid vacation
No specific expectations.
### Other benefits
Paid-for work trips/arrangements and allowance.
## Location and hours
### Location
Fully remote / Hybrid remote 50% and <City> / 100% on-site <City>.
### My time zone
+1 UTC Stockholm.
### Working hours
Flexible, primarily 08:00-17:00 Monday-Friday.
## Job security
### Collective agreement
Ideally, yes.
### Policy for side projects and similar concepts
Acceptance to do paid and unpaid side projects at any level, degree of involvement, or context as long as it does not interfere, harm, or otherwise clearly and negatively affect work performance.
### Non-compete and similar concepts
No non-compete clauses or similar.
### Notice period
3 months.Make a pull request if you have suggestions for new subjects/areas or wording. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md before doing so.
The Pay Transparency Card is licensed under MIT.