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Should I honestly disclose my salary? 03 Jan 2007, 01:21
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Schools usually ask about the salary. Because I'm currently an international student in the US, I'm not allowed to work, and I'm working part time on project basic for a company in Vietnam, so my salary is relatively low. So should I honestly admit that I just receive 20K per year, or should I tell them that I receive "nearly" 40K? (I can tell my manager to confirm my salary higher).
Will a low salary affect my application?
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If schools ask for offer letter/verify from your personnell department
then what will you do
Its a bad risk

Also salary figures should not affect you in your case and adcom would be sensible to make considerations based for example the annual salary of a Trainee software engineer in India is around 4000 to 6000 USD per annum
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I also think they must be aware of different salary levels across the world. If they at all pay attention to this value, they should be evaluating the growth of your salary during your career - that is, whether you were effective enough to solicit frequent salary increases.
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Schools usually ask about the salary. Because I'm currently an international student in the US, I'm not allowed to work, and I'm working part time on project basic for a company in Vietnam, so my salary is relatively low. So should I honestly admit that I just receive 20K per year, or should I tell them that I receive "nearly" 40K? (I can tell my manager to confirm my salary higher).
Will a low salary affect my application?
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Just be honest. I've heard of apps with figures as low as 4000.. They wont give a darn what your current salary is.
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Schools usually ask about the salary. Because I'm currently an international student in the US, I'm not allowed to work, and I'm working part time on project basic for a company in Vietnam, so my salary is relatively low. So should I honestly admit that I just receive 20K per year, or should I tell them that I receive "nearly" 40K? (I can tell my manager to confirm my salary higher).
Will a low salary affect my application?

Just be honest. I've heard of apps with figures as low as 4000.. They wont give a darn what your current salary is.
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I second that.. my startin sal was jus 4600 pa and after a year its about 8000 pa.. Adcoms will know the rest of the stuff. And in most cases, this figure is just used for their statistics viz. pre and post-mba salary..
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I agree with everyone here, but I did hear the director of Wharton state that they look at salary as one indicator of career progress. (https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/mba_pr ... layer.html, its the slide titled, "Admissions Process Professional Development").
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I agree with everyone here, but I did hear the director of Wharton state that they look at salary as one indicator of career progress. (https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/mba_pr ... layer.html, its the slide titled, "Admissions Process Professional Development").
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Sure, and that makes sense - but its in relative terms, not absolute.
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salary growth within the same currency, not across. In fact, even that doesn't make much sense - so all they can realistically look at is the growth and if it is a reasonable increase.

For e.g. in the US, your salary growth per year could be as little as 2% and could be higher as in 7-8%, but a good engineer in India could have annual increments of even 40%-60% (yep, happens quite a lot). But that doesn't mean that the one in India is better than the guy in the US, or if his/her career progression is somehow more impressive - it's just how the local industry can compensate from its own base salaries. If you looked at the absolute numbers, the numbers in most of the developing nations around the world would be really low compared to the US.

Bottomline - don't worry and don't lie.


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I agree with everyone here, but I did hear the director of Wharton state that they look at salary as one indicator of career progress. (https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/mba_pr ... layer.html, its the slide titled, "Admissions Process Professional Development").
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