Salary Match-Making

Q:  My recent one-hour interview went very well. It is an exciting opportunity for the right person, and what they propose is a needed initiative in the community. They are looking for a leader with knowledge of the area and with relationship-building skills who can...

Salary Ranges, Part 1: Why Ranges?

In a recent post, compensation consultant Ann Bares questions whether salary ranges, long a staple of compensation programs among America’s companies and organizations, are still a useful tool given the relatively slow pace of salary annual growth during the...

The Buck Stops Where?

“Managers are commonly ill-equipped to understand the dynamics of their compensation costs, never mind monitor and control them.” I was struck by this statement by Chuck Csizmar in a recent post on the Compensation Cafe blog. Chuck was making a case for...

Q & A: How do you ask for a raise?

Question: How do you ask for a raise? Answer: From what I am seeing and hearing, the practical answer is that you don’t.  Many employers are not even hiring on a full-time basis let alone giving raises.  Many have cut bonuses or have made them entirely...
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