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Demystifying Salary Information

Posted by kdawson on from the leverage dept.

Arun Jacob points us to an article in the NYTimes about online tools that can help in salary negotiations. The article concentrates on two websites — Salary.com and Payscale.com — that use different approaches to provide information on standard compensation packages for particular positions and roles. The theory is that, armed with information that was once available only to corporate HR departments, you could have an easier time negotiating your pay using a fact-based rather than a feelings-based approach.

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  1. If it's not too late already... by StikyPad · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the other hand, if you're a well-paid administrator, you may want to add the following line to your HOSTS file:

    127.0.0.1 www.salary.com
    127.0.0.1 www.payscale.com

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    https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
    1. Re:If it's not too late already... by Joebert · · Score: 4, Funny

      if you're a well-paid administrator

      Or you work at Best Buy.
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      Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
  2. You can't demystify the wife. by twitter · · Score: 4, Funny
    Salary.com measures the salary of a stay-at-home mom. (The statisticians calculated that doing the housekeeping, cooking, babysitting, chauffeuring, administration and other jobs involved in staying at home with a preschooler in Chicago would probably take around 91 hours a week and be worth about $146,000.)

    Don't tell your wife, she'll quit her job!

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.

  3. HA! Nice try ! by tempestdata · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're just an HR manager trying to do damage control.

    You aint foolin nobody mister!

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    - Tempestdata
  4. Easy formula by michaelmalak · · Score: 4, Funny

    if ( out_of_work )
    salary_request = previous_salary
    else
    salary_request = current_salary * 1.3
  5. Re:Ways to avoid having to mention a number, polit by cerberusss · · Score: 4, Funny

    You: "I notice that you have not offered me $PERK, where $PERK is an unsigned integer variable, 4 bytes long, automatically allocated on the stack.
    HR: "?? WTF ??"

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  6. Re:my two cents by mgblst · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remindes me:

    A guys walks up to a pretty girl at a bar.

    "Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?"

    She looks him up and down, "Well, OK"

    "Well, then, would you sleep with me for a dollar?"

    "Hell no, what sort of girl do you think I am" she replies.

    "I think we have already established that, now we are just working out price!"