Salary in ad differing from salary in offer.

[Papa Hotel]

An advert I replied to gave the salary as £xx,212, I got the job and the written offer of employment specified the salary at £xx,000.

Now, I'm not going to kick up a big fuss over 212 quid over a year, I'm just wondering where a potential employee would stand if the difference was significant and worth fighting over? Advert says £40,000, the company offer £20,000, that's worth a pissing match over.

Can the employee put any stock in what the advert said or is it all in the offer?

I suspect the advert means nothing, just interested to know really, I'm not going to rock the boat.

[Custard Test]

How was the ad worded exactly? I am just thinking the £212 could be towards additional benefits such as life insurance, training .....

When I recruit I put a salary range and make an offer according to how closely they match the criteria.

[Cmof]

It's the offer that forms the contract, not the advert.

[missdiane]

I had this when I started my current job, advertised at 1k more than she said at the interview- even though I queried it, also advertised an extra 1k was bonuses,
I declined that and said I would rather take the extra £1k on my annual salary, so I got the advert amount in the end, but no bonuses. Funny thing was I don't know anyone in the company who gets that bonus

[DanL]

Job adverts with a salary are typically "indicative", I've found, or possibly the most they'd pay... Once you have an offer, that's when negotiation can start, assuming you're not happy with the offer made.

It seems a bit odd that anyone would list a salary in anything other than round thousands though.

[Mojooo]

If they were purposefully misleading applicants with inflated salaries then I would imagine an offence is being committed somewhere.

Not necessarily being comitted under employments laws either.

[Jonathan27]

My latest job was advertised at £6,500 above the rate they offered. So, I turned it down and walked away, one week latter they met me half way(ish). It is still £2,950 below the rate advertised, but I'm happy with the amount. You don't have any 'right' to the advertised salary, but equally you don't have any obligation to accept it.

[m444ttb]

My employer does this. They advertise the target or 'market anchor' salary. You then generally start on the base salary, which is 90% of the advertised rate. Unless you score in the top 4% or less of the company it would take c4 years by my estimate to get there!