Background checks should only happen <i>after</i> you accept the employment offer and full compensation package.  Then it doesn&#x27;t matter if they discover you made $24,000 last year but now they hired you for $250,000 per year this year.<p>The background check is unavoidable.  It&#x27;s a liability maneuver for the employer.  The most invasive check I&#x27;ve had is them just requiring two years of prior tax returns (I think to verify employment because the previous employers no longer existed).<p>As far as wording about your private data being hacked in the future, that&#x27;s just the world we live in.  You can&#x27;t avoid it if you want to live within current societal normals.  (Also, for many jobs, salary information is fully public like all government positions.)