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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.