Become a Salesforce Admin and you can make X.

Become a Salesforce Developer and you can make Y.

Become a Salesforce Architect and you can make Z.

Become a CTA and you can make ZZ.

Is there any chance we can cool it with the Salesforce salary hype that continuously surrounds us?

I understand the marketing tied to it (attracting new talent to become a Salesforce professional). 

But does this in turn lead to false expectations, especially for our up and comers, when salaries are over-inflated, generalized, subjective and don’t tell a complete story?

I could be wrong, I’m a small fish in the overall Salesforce recruiting pond and don’t have a huge sample size, but very few positions I’ve been involved with have hit the mark of what I constantly see as the so called average salary for a given position.

Maybe we can come up with a more fulfilling (and realistic) narrative…