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Part of each employee's annual review at my company is going over salary ranges and where you stand. I always thought this was SOP in business, but maybe I'm just lucky.

As for salary ranges for new positions, my company publishes a "code" on each job for its salary range. These codes themselves will usually tell you if a move is lateral, down, or up if it is within the same kind of work. If you are jumping from one kind of work to a different kind, they may not tell you much. (For example, my pay code is RE3. I know that an RE4 pays more and an RE2 pays less, but if I see a posting for an RA4, I have no idea if this is more or less as it is a different scale.)

Practically speaking, I can get salary ranges from many sources:

-My manager (which I'd have to talk to about the move eventually anyway).
-My HR rep.
-A friend in management. (Great for informal inquiries to see if a job is even worth it.)
-A friend in HR. (A term I use loosely, as I believe these people are incapable of normal human relationships.)
-A coworker/friend that has recently asked these questions.