Unnecessarily rude and combative. Flagged.

This is Jessica, Data Scientist at Hired again...

I'm glad you've had a great experience on Hired and that it has changed your life for the better.

I'm surprised that your experience is that the initial salary offers (at the interview request stage) are significantly different than your final salary offer, because I can tell you that this is not the experience of most people on our platform. The majority of the final salary offers are equal to or greater than the offer given at the interview request stage. On average the final salary offers are slightly higher than the interview request offers across all Software Engineering Hires on the Hired platform.

Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it (and if I came across as rude, I apologize to you personally, that was not my intent). So what I'm saying is that companies come forward with a number slightly higher than the "base salary" on your profile. I've been using Hired nearly continuously for two years and interviewing with many companies in that time. I've experimented with that "base salary" number and it is almost totally the case that companies come forward with interview requests with a number slightly higher than this one. Some companies are more honest and give a number that they are expecting to pay, but by-and-large, companies just put a number slightly higher than the "base salary" there. I'm serious about the interviews that I go to through Hired, but very selective about considering any final offers. What I've found is that the salaries offered during this process are just wildly varied for whatever reason. Some higher, some lower, some about the same. I'm not sure if talent advocates receive these offer numbers from companies, or if they're only getting some of them via Hired's communication system, but there are many channels outside of Hired that companies use to convey their offers. It may be that some or even most people using Hired use it for one auction, possibly two, and then take a job and then maybe come back in two years, and their paper offers are similar or slightly higher than the number attached to their initial interview requests. But my experience with nearly continual interviewing via Hired is that the offers put forward by companies are almost never pegged to that number that accompanies the initial interview request. Especially startups are most guilty of lowballing this number, but I'm expressing surprise that these interview request numbers were included in something that comes across as a report on actual salary information, because it is 1) not actual salary information and 2) not correlated to the various offers I have received in a long time of interviewing via Hired. Again, thanks for your reply.

Are the base salaries of each applicant shared with interested companies? Or are they used to match a company with a potential candidate?

Are you referring to the "base salary" on an applicant's profile? That number is created/edited by the applicant and visible to everyone that can see the profile. AFAICT that number has an effect on the "potential salary" number companies give to applicants, but I do not believe there is an internal matching between applicants and companies based on this number.