Honestly speaking, these lets talk salary thread are rather pointless and really throws the scale off. Mainly because people with lower salary will probably not be posting their salary compared to the higher ones posted here, and people who know they have fairly high pay will see this as a chance to brag.

Then the people who has no clue will come in here, and read and assume this is what they should be making, when probably more than 83% of the market makes less than that, and then goes on to request that high amount from future employers. And they wonder why they don't get hired.

That being said, HR should be more transparent about how much they're paying on average, else they get unreasonable pay demands.

I think the situation goes both ways. But if everyone were to be earning that amount, then someone will start to complain they're making too low. So since the employer are the ones who plan for what they can afford (and willing) to pay, employees should be less demanding.

On the other hand, there are too many low balling jobseekers messing up the scale in Jobstreet in that a job requires someone to have X years experience in Y expertise, and then those blokes who don't qualify applies anyway, and totally screws over those people who DO qualify for that post. Then the employers call them in for interview and then bargains it down. It's a vicious cycle.

I worked with many guys from India. Frankly, they're not as "outstanding" as many people think, and those who are get paid very well. Those who are paid peanuts are as good as monkeys.

Lets face it, employers are willing to get monkeys as long as they're paying peanuts, and hope that there's a gem somewhere amongst the bunch of monkeys to hold things together. If you find an employer who is willing to pay you fairly, you better hope that company has some really rich customers, or really low operational costs.