Salary Expectations and Online Dating

Filed in archive Online Profiles on June 16, 2008

One question I frequently encounter with online daters has to do with salary. Specifically, do you share your salary on your profile?

I know that most online dating sites have a spot to list your salary, but should you? When it came to giving advice to my clients, I always said to leave it blank. Why? Salary is a very personal thing. Putting your salary on your profile does only serves to give other online daters an impression about you that they won't have the context to justify yet. In other words, someone has to get to know you first.

There are some wealthy guys and girls, like this airline pilot, who fear that listing their true salary would only encourage daters to either come after their money or intimidate them. Still others, who earn less, feel that listing their salary might turn daters off and prevent them from getting to know them.

What do you think? Does salary play an important role in online dating? And if so, what do you do to combat it?

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