RE: Pay Gap Between Manager and Subordinates

["Porrello, Leonard" <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com>]

Google it.

Gene, How much did pay for the report you needed? 

-----Original Message-----
From: techwr-l-bounces+lporrello=illumina -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lporrello=illumina -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Craig Cardimon
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 10:07 AM
To: Gene Kim-Eng
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Pay Gap Between Manager and Subordinates

So, what's a Radford number?

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:

> I've had five manager positions, and never had any difficulty 
> obtaining the compensation grade ranges or actual compensations for any of my reports.
>  In addition, I was the one submitting the recommendations for salary 
> increases and delivering the final results of each year's compensation 
> adjustments to my reports.  Finding out what other employees at MY 
> level were making was another matter, but my standards for how I am 
> being compensated are always based on what I think I might be able to 
> negotiate elsewhere rather than what others working beside me are getting.
>
> Over the years the difference between my pay and the pay of my reports 
> has ranged from a couple of thousand a year less than my highest paid 
> report to nearly $15k above.  That last was at a company where I was 
> hired to assume management of an existing group of long-time and 
> grossly underpaid employees, and I made it one of my priorities to get 
> all of their pay updated to current Radford numbers for competitive rates.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Al Geist <al -at- geistarts -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > Although Craig is correct that in most companies pay rates are 
> > usually
> kept
> > classified, until budget time. Supervisors responsible for 
> > developing budgets get the pay rates for their staff, and the pay 
> > window for
> potential
> > new staff members. As a long-term contactor and publications 
> > manager, my pay was close to equivalent managers when all the 
> > benefits were included....a bit more than some and a bit less than 
> > others, so there wasn't any problems.
> 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Create and publish documentation through multiple channels with Doc-To-Help. Choose your authoring formats and get any output you may need.

Try Doc-To-Help, now with MS SharePoint integration, free for 30-days.

http://bit.ly/doc-to-help

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com -dot- 

To unsubscribe send a blank email to
techwr-l-leave -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com


Send administrative questions to admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot-  Visit
http://www.techwhirl.com/email-discussion-groups/ for more resources and info.

Looking for articles on Technical Communications?  Head over to our online magazine at http://techwhirl.com

Looking for the archived Techwr-l email discussions?  Search our public email archives @ http://techwr-l.com/archives