Resume Tip: Use of Salary History
Although using salary history on your resume may sound right and logical to you, unfortunately from a professional resume standpoint it's incorrect. Modern resume concepts strongly recommend omitting salary or salary history from your resume.

Here's why:
1. Showing salary information on the resume is considered to be in poor taste. It can create an impression that you are ostentatious, showy--a braggart. Such practice lacks a certain touch of subtlety, diplomacy, and class.

2. Employers are interested in your accomplishments and contributions, not your cost. By including salary information on the resume, you draw attention to your cost instead of to your potential value. As a result, you may never reach the interview stage and forfeit the opportunity to personally convince the prospective employer that you're really worth it.

3. Inclusion of salary history may give the impression that you are "money hungry."

4. Most importantly, premature disclosure of salary or salary requirements may automatically screen you from consideration for a position in which you might have considerable interest. Many people have taken lateral moves or slight salary decreases to accept positions offering considerable long-term advancement opportunity.

Source: "Twelve Common Resume Myths," Richard H. Beatty.

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