Don’t Play “Let’s Make a Deal” with Candidates’ Compensation in Business and at Work

As part of the candidate screening process I perform for clients’ internal hiring needs, I ask candidates up front what their salary requirement is. (Reminder: it’s now not compliant in NYS to ask candidates for their salary history.) The salary requirement data point is particularly important for nonprofits to know, given their typically smaller compensation budgets. In a perfect world, employers would advertise the salary range for each job posting based on experience (however, regardless of experience, if the…