JobHintz Released Salary Ranges for Living Social Jobs

Palo Alto, CA, September 20, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Today, JobHintz released a salary database for jobs at Living Social (visit JobHintz and search for Living Social), a social commerce site that allows people to buy discount deals and save up on their favorite restaurants, spas, sporting events, hotels and other local attractions in select cities. Recently, Living Social unveiled plans for initial public offering and is rapidly expanding its operations throughout the country. JobHintz provides a listing of new job openings at Living Social and their salary ranges. Asked about the areas that Living Social is hiring for and the pay levels, Carla Olson, the general manager of JobHintz responded: “Most Living Social new reqs are in sales. A typical job, Account Executive, pays between $42,000 and $70,000 per year. This may not be a great amount for experienced hires, but the good news is that you don't have to be an experienced sales rep to work at Living Social. All you need is people skills and creativity.” At Living Social, account executives have the option to work from home, where they could be on the phone rounding up more merchants and other kinds of organizations to participate in Living Social's discount strategies. However, some jobs are onsite, mostly in the Living Social headquarter location, Washington, DC.

The other areas where Living Social is hiring extensively are engineering and event management. Living Social is recruiting engineers for both its headquarter location, Washington DC, and its Boulder, Colorado office. According to JobHintz, software engineering candidates can expect to get paid between $85,000 and $115,000 annually at Living Social. Event managers’ primary responsibility is to develop and organize exciting local events and experiences, under the guidance of the city manager, and manage a team of part-time event staff. The event manager job at Living Social pays between $40,000 and $55,000. “Those salary ranges are quite typical for social commerce companies, such as Living Social and Groupon,” says Carla Olson. “But candidates should be aware that the competition for Living Social jobs is quite steep, since they hire only the best and brightest.”

To find out compensation data for Living Social jobs, users should search for keyword Living Social on JobHintz, and salary ranges will automatically be displayed along with the search result. In addition to searching by keywords and location, JobHintz users can search by minimum salary requirement. The salary feature is enabled by Jobhintz’ proprietary database that contains compensation information for more than 100,000 jobs as well as additional user-submitted insights. JobHintz offers Base Salary Hintz™ and Total Pay Hintz™ for select jobs. Base Salary Hintz™ is an estimated base pay range, computed using the database or provided by insiders, whereas Total Pay Hintz™ is an indication of the total compensation. In contrast to Base Salary Hintz™, Total Pay Hintz™ typically includes signing and guaranteed discretionary bonuses, including stock options and grants. “Salary information is the most sought after information by job applicants,” says Carla Olson. “Base Salary and Total Pay Hintz™ are our best effort pay estimates, and candidates use them to gauge their interest in potential job opportunities.”

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