Encountering slightly odd resume requirement, please help!

I'll contradict deathpanels. You're in a negotiation, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring isn't just a catchy phrase. They want to know what you make so that, if you're underpaid now, they can continue to underpay you. If you're in anything but a completely powerless negotiating position, I encourage you to either be vague ("in line with the market") or completely silent ("confidential"). Applying for jobs is asymmetrical enough; there's no need to hamstring yourself.

If you must submit something, come up with a reasonable range that includes total compensation, including health, dental, vision, paid time off, and other fringe benefits - whether you took advantage of any of them or not. "My total compensation package was in the range of XX to YY." If they request more specific detail, use one of the many, many suggestions from previous Asks on this issue: -"I can't reveal anything more specific" -"My prior salary has nothing to do with my ability to do this new job for you" -"I evaluate a lot more than just a number before I take a job, so let's leave numbers out of it until we mutually determine this is a good fit"

Not exactly answerting your formatting question, but let me give you another perspective as a hiring manager about why a company might ask for this. First of all, unless you are in the public sector (government service) or are an internal candidate, there is no way to verify your salary history. All a previous employer is going to tell me is whether they employed you or not. So, n'thing the advice to be vague there. The less nefarious reason to ask for salary history and requirements is so the HR people can screen out ahead of time someone who is way out of range on the high side. Any reasonably sized company is going to be hiring against a specific salary range (which you can't really know ahead of time). This problem comes up for a couple of reasons: if you are in a field or role that has a huge variance in salaries, if you are relocating from another part of the country, or if you are stepping into a less senior role. The relocation thing can manifest in two ways: you are moving from somewhere with a much higher cost of living, or it will be expensive to interview you in person because the company is picking up your travel expenses. Note that they can just as easily do this screening informally, over the phone, later in the hiring process if you make the short list; doing it up front in the application is a little lazy, in my opinion. I have been involved in a couple of hiring situations where this (pre-screening for a salary fit) was not done for whatever reason, the candidate went through a lengthy interviewing process and got to the offer portion with the executive doing the hiring, and we all discovered that the candidate's idea of a starting salary was $30K to $50K higher than the top end of our range - too big of a gap to be negotiated and the we all mutually walked away. As you can imagine, egg on face for the HR people involved for not catching this in advance. So going back to your formatting question, what they want to hear is that you are going to be inside a reasonable market range and if they make you an offer, the negotiation won't derail because you are too far apart. Good luck with your application!

I also would be inclined to include salary history separately from the resume. You never know where a digital resume would go and that seems like a lot of information to have tied up and bundled together. I'd include it in the body of an email. And include total compensation and bonuses. Be somewhat vague. Use zeroes. If your salary was $46,750 - round up to $47k. Only include the two most recent or most relevant jobs.

This is not all that uncommon. Usually I've had this come up in conversation AFTER an interview, not beforehand, but some HR depts do ask for salary requirements upfront. They're just trying to establish a base for when/if they make you an offer, or to see if you are ridiculously overpaid, in which case it wouldn't be worth trying to make you an offer to lure you away from your current gig. You have nothing to fear unless you know you are near the max pay in your field and expect to somehow make more. Just be straightforward.

I've encountered this, and even seen online applications where you literally can't submit without completing the info. You can leave it blank if possible, but definitely don't lie, because they'll catch it if they call to verify employment history.

To clarify: I don't intend on leaving this info out (as much as I may be tempted to), but I would like more recommendations on how to include both my salary history and current requirements within the body of the resume itself.

What does "requires" mean? Every job I have ever had with two exceptions had this "mandatory" form that had to be submitted with a resume which had this information. Every job I have ever had with the exceptions of the two that did not do this I did not provide the information, just the role and company names. Every job I have ever had where I did this had the nosey HR troll ask about it to which I said "I am not disclosing that information." Every time they said "but it's a required field" and so I told them that they could put "1" if they so desired to satisfy their computers. Of course, that it was required was probably a straight up lie, but standing by your guns is actually not a bad thing to do if you have any leverage at all. Or just can convince yourself that you do.

To clarify, the position description requests that applicants submit a "complete resume, including salary history and salary requirements."