Re: Pay Gap Between Manager and Subordinates

[Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Payscale's data is self-provided by individual members and is not
comprehensive.  The Radfords identify all the companies providing data to
your specific sector, and your company has to provide its data as part of
the access agreement.

BLS might be the best data source for employees, but the best is none too
good.

Gene Kim-Eng



On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:19 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin <
Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:

> How about PayScale.com.
>
> Anyone using that?
>
> Trust it at all?
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gene Kim-Eng
> >
> > The Radford surveys are a set of privately-collected data about
> > employee
> > position descriptions and compensation.  They're more reliable than BLS
> > data for technology-based hiring because unlike BLS data they are
> > categorized by technology sectors, so if you are a medical device
> > company
> > and want to know what the common job descriptions and prevailing wages
> > are
> > for people working in medical devices  you aren't looking at data that
> > includes people working on aircraft or accounting software.
> >
> > The salary increases required to bring up all the staff in that
> > particular
> > company ranged from around $5,000 to over $10,000.  Fortunately, this
> > was
> > back in the 90's when it was actually possible to argue that we might
> > lose
> > someone with 10+ years of product knowledge to some upstart company
> > that
> > was selling pet food online.
> >
> > Gene Kim-Eng
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