Salaries: You're Only Worth What Someone Will Pay

Some sobering perspective on salaries from recruiting/HR blog Fistful of Talent. Basically, at some point, as helpful as Glassdoor.com and the Occupational Outlook Handbook are for researching what a given position should pay, eventually you’ll need to realize that those are all generalizations.

Blogger RJ Morris uses the example of a house he was trying to sell:

The experts kept telling me, “Your house is worth x dollars,” so we listed at that price.

On Day One, we received a slightly lower offer.