Comments by "Jenna Gets Creative" (@JennaGetsCreative) on "Don't Answer THIS Question in a Job Interview!" video.

These money questions are so hard to hold strong on in interviews! I interviewed over the weekend for a town clerk position. The mayor and 2 counsellors interviewed me. The mayor was pushing so hard for me to toss out a salary number and would NOT disclose the band. A friend who works in HR told me the band for that type of work in our area is $50-70k (CAD.) If he'd pushed a little more before one of the other counsellors suggested emailing my salary proposal later, I probably would have said 50 because I just earned my accounting credentials and despite lots of other experience, I don't know what I'm worth. I honestly didn't know 50 was low, and I'd joked with my husband before the interview that I didn't think the position was worth it but maybe if they offered me 60... :P Didn't take it, though. I had other concerns.
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You could still not be permitted to answer by your current/past employer. Just because they're allowed to ask doesn't mean you're allowed to answer.
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I'm in the same boat. I've worked before, but I went back to school for something completely different. I've never had a salaried position before, so it's a whole new world trying to figure out what salary I think I deserve. I recently interviewed for a position and they would NOT tell me the salary band. They eventually asked me to get back to them with a salary proposal. While they were still pushing me to answer what I wanted to be paid one of them said "You must have some idea what you'd work for. You wouldn't take $10k, right?" "No, that's not minimum wage." "So you DO have a number! What is it?" "No I just know minimum wage is higher than that." 🙃 A friend who works in HR later told me what the salary band should be for that position and it turns out the number I almost threw out when they kept pushing is the bottom of the band my friend told me. I think that's what they were hoping for, that I wouldn't ask for a fair number.
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