During a recent conversation about a job opening at a New York-based menswear start-up, a recruiter asked Todré Land for his “preliminary compensation target.”
“I randomly blurted out ‘a minimum of $125,000,’” said Land, who currently works as a business manager for a major retailer in New York. “I don’t even know where that … number came from.”
It’s been roughly a decade since Land earned a bachelor’s degree in retail…