Career Coaching
You need to know how your salary compares with others in your field, as well as the industry in which you work and the area where you live, in order to manage your career path.
Fortunately, this information is readily available via a least two new Internet sites: Glassdoor.com and Jobnob.com> Contrary to some of the older sites that provide pay ranges of average income for a position in a particular geographic area, these two focus on pay scales for particular employers.
They operate on a vast amount of data. Jobnob, only three months old, posts more than 400,00 salaries. That number will soon grow to more than four million. The information contains average pay, plus the high and low range.
Check them out. If your employer is listed, you can learn how you salary stacks up. Thus informed, you can act in your own best interest in a variety of ways:
1. Be grateful your salary is in the top range.
2. Ask for a raise based on a valid comparison with what others are receiving.
3. Upgrade your skills to a better paying job.
4. Find work with another employer where the compensation is higher.
I wish your career success!
Ramon Greenwood, Head Career Coach
Common Sense At Work
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