<prompt> Human: A bit of back story: I was the weekend person who fulfilled the job duties that match a full-time position I just saw posted on a job site. My old job was part-time weekend work and the pay was minimum wage, but I was good at it and did it for about 8 years. For half of that time I was a student during the week, then I worked for about 11hr for a couple of years in an unrelated positionfield and most recently Ive been working in freelance writing and supplementing it with under-the-table work and the pay is sporadic. Id do work for a few clients one month and get paid via check or PayPal totaling a couple of grand or so for one month, and then the next month only make a few hundred. The off-the-books work is paid cash so theres no official proof of income earned. This position Im applying for would be the head person for this particular role with an annual salary, medical, paid time off, and 401K with matching while in my old job I was an associate. This would be my first job with those kind of benefits, and based on my salary history Ive never made more than 20Kyear. Id like to make more than that with this job, so how do I present my history in a way that doesnt make it seem like my ceiling should be around there? This is the first time Im applyng to a position with this request so Id appriciate any tips you guys can offer for the future as well. Ive searched this sub and saw a few similar posts with some advice saying dont provide a history, but I fear leaving this out will cause my application to be overlooked.  <response>: look at what the pay is in your area for that position. Then adjust that pay scale based on your experience. doesnt matter what you made in the past, just what the market rate is for the position, how your future company is in terms of market rates do they tend to pay more to get better employees, pay less and lose people to higher paying jobs regularly, pay the market avg and see how it goes?, and your personal experienceconfidence. All that said - Ive never seen a position ask for my salary history. If they do - you can write it in terms of hourly to put everything on even grounds or convert your hourly pay to fulltime pay to make the scale the same then add 5-10 as they may use your old pay to anchor your new offer. Use your best guessestimates - they wont be able to check anything, so unless you put something like I made 150kyr they likely wont know how far off you are. 