Salary question

PayScale - Salary Survey, Salaries, Wages, Compensation Information and Analysis is a pretty awesome way of doing things. You put in your zip as well as occupation & experience. It will give you an average of pay based on polls and what-not.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Matt --
When I did a search at one point, it asked for my position, my company, years of experience, pay, and zip-code. It tallied that on in to the figures and showed me the results.

I wouldn't say it's inaccurate. The values are pretty realistic, but the pay difference between a newbie (0 months experience) to someone who is about to end their training duration (~24 months experience) is considerable. That can skew some numbers, but hell, nothing is perfect.

Just lobbing it out to give a general idea =o

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Miles --
Could be due to a few things =O How long have you worked there? Are you still a "trainee"? Some places don't give nice pay raises until you hit the 6-12 month-mark (showing you're worth it, basically). Another reason could be good benefits. If your bank has awesome benefits (401k, health, dental, time off, etc) then maybe they're giving you less pay than the market average simply because they're balancing things. One company I applied at last year gave people an ungodly sort of pay, but the time off and benefits were atrocious.

My brother is making an obscene amount of cash, but his company only matches, like, 1% of 401k. Something really pissant like that =(

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Well, if you jump businesses after being there for a year, I doubt folks would complain. If you make a habit of bouncing around though, it starts to look bad. Looking closer-to-home and for more money would be very justified.

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