@kgg+1hwLqO6W - not sure a validation database is a correct way of looking at salary at all or true
The previous poster that says give them what you want is true, based on your experience and skills. You do not have to give your previous salary, nor do you have to tell the truth. It is none of their business. Job salaries nowadays do not have to match your previous job.
If you are entry level, you show them in the interview your worth.
It is an equifax database. It is pretty accurate and went back years to employers besides Fiserv
Almost like they are motivated to keep Fiserv employees at Fiserv.
Someone on here is really trying to convince everyone about this database. It may be available, and may be used for background checks, so who cares?
Just because you start at one salary, you learn new things at a job and deserve more. Fiserv is notorious for no raises, getting rid of 401k, and bonuses for everyone except Frank. Fiserv is notoriously low on salaries.
If it was built by Fiserv, then why does it work? Shouldn't it be down all the time?
@2kly+1hAYlj1g, this will help with your reading efforts. https://www.fastcompany.com/40485634/equifax-salary-data-and-the-work-number-database
@2kly+1hAYlj1g, you don't know what you are talking about. In fact, that database you think is insignificant was created through a jo--t effort between Equifax and Fiserv. It is estimated that 70-80% of employers use this database to verify employment and salary information. When I was hired on by Fiserv, I know for a fact they used the Work Number database during their background checking process. Get your head out of the sand and go do some reading on this. It is enlightening.
@ucz+1hAYlj1g - Your babble about a database is a way of trying to make people feel helpless. Like they are at the whim of an employer.
If one knows their stuff, are positive and friendly, thinks through what they are worth, one can ask for what they want, deserve and achieve it. Regardless of the past.
If the employer, like Fiserv, doesn't want to hire them, there are a ton of other options out there nowadays.
Just a fact of life.
@bow+1hAYlj1g, you are not correct. There is a database. It is called The Work Number. You can request a report of your Work Number employment history. This will show you that an employer can see detailed salary history, even pay increases. This is the site https://employees.theworknumber.com/.
Yeah, I highly doubt that any database can claim to maintain accurate and up-to-date salary information for all different types of employees across all different types of companies. If you tell an interviewer that you're making more money than you actually are, and they call you on it by referencing some database like this, you could always just say it was a more recent change in salary, or that the database is just wrong. How could the interviewer know for sure? So many companies have multi-layered compensation structures too, so the salary isn't always the full picture of an employee's total compensation. I just highly doubt that any of these services are highly adept at maintaining accurate records of this stuff.
Also, if an interviewer asks you what your current salary is, you don't have to answer them. You can instead tell them what your preferred salary is. If they give you push-back, then they're probably not a great employer anyway. My current employer never asked me what I was making at the time I had interviewed with them, they only asked what I was looking to make, which is a better question.