Pain point: There are different platforms to calculate the salary. As an explorer-minded person, I never stop looking for the next location where I would like to relocate to experience a different lifestyle, working environment, and culture. For research, I go on Glassdoor, payscale, and google search to learn about the salary and living expanse in other countries. The frustration of browsing between different sources and platforms - not to mention after this hassle I still don’t know how much should I negotiate the salary - inspired me to create a global salary calculator. A calculator for users to calculate their salary based on their working experience, and also compare their salaries with other people with similar working experienc
Role
UX Research
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Why does this matter?
Aiming to motivate pay equality between different genders within the country
Improves trust with employees
Giving an idea to users, if the offer is reasonable based on their lifestyle
Indicate the income to both employees and freelancers who considering changing their career paths
Helping the. users to realize the expanse in another country. Based on the data, they can negotiate the right amount of salary.
Provide different salary calculation methods in different countries.
Research
Once I have this idea, my first step is to understand if users need a salary calculator, what problems they encounter when doing salary research, and what’s their expectation of a salary calculator.
Are users making research? Which tool are they using?
Glassdoor
Payscale
Other
… or users don’t do research at all.
Hypothesis
What problems users might encounter?
Users might not know if the salary offer is reasonable after tax.
Users might not know if the salary offer they received is more or less than the average range
Users who are freelancers, or artists, might not know if their hourly rate is reasonable
What is the expectation from users?
Users might want to know if their salary is too low based on their working experience, and the industry.
Users might want to compare their salary with other people working in the same job position
Users might want to know what’s a reasonable salary in another country
Users who are freelancers might want to know how much to charge hourly is reasonable
I created an online survey based on the hypothesis I have while using these salary calculators. I would like to test if this hypothesis is the right approach.
In the survey, 36% were Women, and 64% were Men from age 18 to 39 in 14 responses. In terms of the tool, 50% of them use glassdoor to do the salary research, and 15% of the participants use google or a local platform. Surprisingly, 35% of them don't research at all.
Key takeaways
Users don't know if their salary offer is reasonable after tax when they are living in another country (or going to work in another country)
Users don't know if the salary offer they received is more or less than the average range
Users who are freelancers would like to know if their hourly rate is reasonable
Users would like to know If the company can afford to pay them more
