New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about their past salary

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New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about their past salary. Oh, I sometimes wish it was illegal for agents to ask that question about my past rates. As well as other questions...

[barrydidit]

[northernladyuk]

New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about their past salary. Oh, I sometimes wish it was illegal for agents to ask that question about my past rates. As well as other questions...

Tell them you are bound by a confidentiality clause and cannot discuss them.

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Tell them you are bound by a confidentiality clause and cannot discuss them.

That's exactly what I do, yet some insist on squeezing this information out of me leading to me hanging up on them...

[PhiltheGreek]

Some insist on squeezing this information out of me

Fook me. Some of us fought a war on your behalf. Have you ever considered growing a pair, or would you just like me to print you a T-shirt to wear in your safe space?

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Fook me. Some of us fought a war on your behalf. Have you ever considered growing a pair, or would you just like me to print you a T-shirt to wear in your safe space?

I'm not saying I'm giving them that information, am I? I just wish they stopped being such idiots.

[OwlHoot]

... Oh, I sometimes wish it was illegal for agents to ask that question about my past rates. As well as other questions...

You're not under oath. Answering agents' questions about your past rates is a great way of bumping up expectations, by exaggerating them!

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You're not under oath. Answering agents' questions about your past rates is a great way of bumping up expectations, by exaggerating them!

Of course, my answer to the questions "what was your previous rate?" is always my real rate + 2 x markup (but I can be flexible... ;-)