All About Salaries: A #BufferChat Recap

Dec 9, 2017 5 min readBufferchat

This week on #bufferchat, our community had an in-depth discussion on salaries, from best salary negotiation tips to predictions for the future of salaries. Read on to discover all of the awesome insights shared during the chat!

Catch our weekly Twitter chat, #bufferchat, at TWO times every Wednesday for valuable industry insights and to meet hundreds of other smart marketers and social media enthusiasts. Same topic, same place, just at different times – feel free to join in to whichever chat time works best for you!

4 pm AEDT (Sydney time)

9 am PT (San Francisco time)

Bufferchat on December 6, 2017: All About Salaries

This week’s stats:
Bufferchat #1 (4 pm AEDT): 20 participants; reach of 969,648
Bufferchat #2 (9 am PT): 65 participants; reach of 2,830,175

Q1: How would you feel if you had a transparent salary?

From the community:

See all the great answers to question 1 here!

Q2: Do you have anyone you talk to about your salary?

From the community:

See all the great answers to question 2 here!

Q3: What are your best salary negotiation tips?

From the community:

See all the great answers to question 3 here!

Q4: Do you have any resources you use to see what your salary could or should be?

From the community:

See all the great answers to question 4 here!

Q5: Have you worked for a company with specific salary policies, such as not discussing salaries?

From the community:

See all the great answers to question 5 here!

Q6: What do you think is the future of salaries? (Will we all be paid in bitcoin? Go back to bartering?)

From the community:

See all the great answers to question 6 here!


Thank you so much to our awesome community for sharing such great insights in this chat!

Do you have any comments or answers to these questions? Leave your thoughts in the comments! We’d love to hear from you!

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