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From: tjj@ssc-vax.UUCP (T J Jardine)
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Re: Job offer info?
Message-ID: <78@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Apr-84 12:08:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 19 12:08:32 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Apr-84 02:37:00 EST
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Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
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    "Observation: It seems to me that employers hold all the cards when it comes
     to asking that hard-ball question, 'What were you looking for in terms of
     salary?'"

Whenever I have been asked what salary I am expecting for a position, I have
responded by saying that the salary should reflect the value of the position
to the company, and since only they can decide what that value is, they
should make me an offer based on that value.  Sometimes it is hard to
convince the interviewer that this is a firm decision, but it has always
worked.  If they don't believe that they can offer you a salary in this manner,
that is an early sign of trouble brewing.

    "Where did this silly distaste for publishing this kind of information
     come from?"

The distaste for publishing salary information is most probably derived both
from a desire for personal privacy and the employer's desire to maintain
peace in the workplace.  It has been felt, and rightly so to some degree, that
people would become concerned over how much others were making and that this
would become a source of contention.  Some of the companies that let workers
'vote' on the salary increases of other employees have proved that this is not
always the case.

Ted Jardine
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TJ (with Amazing Grace) The Piper
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