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Difficulty determining salary for niche industry transition

🧭 worksocial problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 3/5

An academic professional transitioning to a full-time industry role is struggling to determine a competitive salary pitch because the position is highly specialized and lacks comparable market data.

Who's affected: An academic professional transitioning into a specialized industry role.

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A salary benchmarking tool that allows users to input specific skill sets and job responsibilities to generate a custom compensation range.
  2. A marketplace for career coaching services specifically focused on niche industry transitions and salary negotiation for academics.
  3. A crowdsourced database where professionals in boutique or custom roles anonymously report compensation data based on specific job functions.
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Real voices

“I've had a very hard time finding comparable jobs and/or salary numbers against which I can norm my education level and experience”

Source: Stack Exchange (workplace) · CC BY-SA 4.0, user-contributed content from Stack Exchange; summarized and modified

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