What does one put for: "What is your current salary and expectations?" Is there a good non-answer? (Note: If I put a down a figure for current salary, I will not lie).

Well, what are you hoping for relative to your current salary? Do you have any idea what their range is?

people in my current position are compensated in the following range using the broadest definition you can. (e.g. a reference librarian at my place makes anywhere from 30K - 80K) Likewise, I'd give a range for the expectations based on some research.

I totally agree with Sparky.

I've used, "commensurate with industry standards."

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I maintain that your current salary is absolutely no business of your potential employer's. What you make now is only relevant to you and your current company. Do NOT tell them your current salary- it will ONLY be used against you. Also, it's none if their business. I can't emphasize that enough.

A few weeks ago I saw a small caravan of what I can only think to call "Rapturemobiles" driving through my neighborhood. They were wrapped with "THE END IS COMING! REJOICE!" decals with May 21st printed all over, and loudspeakers (thankfully not in use) mounted on top. Somebody's gonna have a hell of a time reselling those on May 22nd...

The Lubovitch can buy them and repaint them as Mitzvah Mobiles.

What you make now is only relevant to you and your current company. Do NOT tell them your current salary- it will ONLY be used against you.

With java on this one!

Back in the 1980s, there was a guy who had painted his car a dull black and covered it in Bible sayings painted in white and a loudspeaker on top, and drove around downtown Milwaukee all day long playing recorded sermons from it. We all called him The Holy Roller on campus.

More recently, I was a bit impressed with the sheer chutzpah demonstrated by a guy who covered his white panel van in anti-Catholic posters and drove around the NW side of Chicago and a few close-by suburbs that were almost completely comprised of Poles, Italians, and Hispanics.

There's a guy who comes to campus here pretty much every day there's nice weather and stands in front of the student center shouting at everybody about how they're going to hell. A few weeks ago, as I was walking by, the bit I heard was, "You are addicted to Facebook! You text OMG! This is evil in the eyes of the holy Lord!"

I maintain that your current salary is absolutely no business of your potential employer's. What you make now is only relevant to you and your current company. Do NOT tell them your current salary- it will ONLY be used against you. Also, it's none if their business. I can't emphasize that enough.

Well I certainly agree. The reality is, given my crappy publishing salary, I can't really afford to make less, but, given how much I want to work at this place, I'd actually be fine with the same. But I know I shouldn't admit that. I really don't think it would be less than I make and there is the possibility of a tremendous upside that I wouldn't want to eliminate by lowballing it.

Since I'm sort of trying to finagle something anyway, I think I can get away with not really responding to the question, but if I do I wlll probably use some variation of "commensurate with industry standards."

Thanks people. Applying for jobs is hard--we hates it forever!