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What's the term for a pay scale where pay is directly (and only) related to time in service?

Some employers (for examplethe US government American Airlines) have a pay scale where: The pay scale is transparent (either published to employees or made available to the general public) Pay is ...
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Cost of living has nothing to do with wage? [closed]

I have a friend who's received an offer for $17/hour as a co-op in NY. My friend is a masters student in Computer Engineering doing advanced AI and machine learning. I'm trying to figure out if this ...
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How do I objectively calculate and pay colleagues and myself for time spent working on our startup?

Background: I and two other colleagues founded a start-up company a number of years ago. We’ve spent a lot of time over the years building our product and the business and we expect to start earning ...
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Joined new organisation in lower pay band

I have worked for a Multi National Company (Software) company for 12 plus years in banking market. I wanted to move to another organisation to experience a change, and to attain market correction to ...
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Removing the weekends from the month and then calculating the salary

I am working in a 3-5 people startup & the way my employer calculates the salary is a new way which I have never seen before. He basically first removes the weekends (Sat & Sun) from the month ...
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Am I underpaid as a "temp" front end developer? [duplicate]

I have worked for the past few months as a tech support help desk rep for $11.75/hr through a temp service. Recently, they asked if anyone had front end development skills. Several people responded ...
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UK – An Executive might offer me a new job - can I negotiate my salary?

A couple of weeks ago the Chief Engineer where I work walked past me, stopped, and told me to set up an appointment with him before walking away. I got an appointment from his secretary and I sent him ...
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Salary negotiation at a start up? [closed]

I had a phone interview this morning with a company that I was so, so excited about. However, when she was rolling through the benefits she mentioned that it pays much lower than I expected. At my ...
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Is this “career ladder” HR tool commonly used? [closed]

My first job was with a large multinational that had a very comprehensive HR department. When I joined the company, HR gave new employees a lot of useful information, including a “career ladder” table....
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Thank you response from HR, negative sign?

One recruiter called me said that I was shortlisted in their candidate list*(which I had applied some where like mid of 2015, and also I went to their technical and practical interviews)* and asked me ...
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Is there a difference in pay between horizontals for the same resource? [closed]

A colleague who was in a core product creation software team in our company is being moved to the software services team (not because of performance issues, but because they saw that she had family ...
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How to handle an employer knowingly paying below market? [duplicate]

My current employer is known to have a below average pay scale. My current salary is 5% less than my last job, and there is a mantra about the company not having enough money. Lots of money is being ...
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Should you get paid more for using more languages?

Let’s say a job requires C++ and Python on their description. A few months later they give you a task that requires another programming language such as JavaScript. Would this warrant asking for more ...
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If an employee has a contractual pay increase is it payable after they have left [closed]

Employees have a contractual term that their salary will match whatever inflationary increases are agreed from a a particualr national payscale body. This normally takes effect in April each year. ...
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Salary Raise after 6 months [duplicate]

During the interview process when negotiating my salary and ontract my employer advised that my salary could be increased after 6 months depending on performance. Should I go about asking whether this ...
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How much is 35 w2 hourly to 1099 hourly? [closed]

Hi I am a software engineer. I'm in the process of negotiating with my current employer about my 1099 hourly rate. The background is that I was contracted to my current employer through a contracting/...
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Difference between a government job (either full-time or semi-government) and private sector in Pakistan

What is the difference between a government job (either full-time or semi-government) and a private sector job in Pakistan? If an organization does not use the BPS (Basic Pay Scale), will a job belong ...
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Been hired at senior level, but other people of my experience and skill are Staff Level? [closed]

So I've been hired by a big tech company (not faang tho). During the interview process the recruiter proposed me a Senior level, hurriedly mentioning that there was also staff and higher level, but ...
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Bonus Calculations [closed]

According to our company (UAE based company) policy yearly bonus given on below mentioned formula 60% of employees performance + 40% company growth My basic salary is 9540 and our company have ...
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