Title: I&#x27;ve received a written offer from a BigCo that I&#x27;ve accepted, and we&#x27;ve now proceeded to the background check stage.<p>They&#x27;ve contracted with a third party to perform a background check, and part of the employment verification step requires previous salaries and dates of employment. I have an issue with providing my salary history as I&#x27;ve received large increases last time I switched and this time as well (&gt;40%), and I&#x27;m concerned they&#x27;ll lower my agreed-upon salary after seeing the results of the report (as I seriously doubt it&#x27;s a binary yes&#x2F;no from the third-party).<p>Since I have not previously disclosed my salary history during the interview process, my plan is to bend the rules of allowable characters in the salary field to provide a null value and supply heavily redacted W-2s &#x2F; paystubs as supporting documentation (in lieu of allowing them to contact my previous employers directly).<p>I&#x27;m wondering--Is this a sound plan? Would you do something different? Am I being overly-cautious with information I perceive to be confidential and irrelevant in my background check given I already have an accepted offer?
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