East Lyme — First Selectman Mark Nickerson said he will take a pay cut of $16,000 in 2017-18 as the town faces another year of budgetary cutbacks that have forced department heads to “do more with less.” “My offer to cut my salary comes at a time when all our town departments are feeling the pressure of […]
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Recently, Tatiana Morand, a content and SEO manager, asked her employer for a raise. She got it. Content marketer Allison Gagliardi asked for 10% raises at two previous employers. Both times, she got the salary bump. How? Both of them say they didn’t just ask for a raise. They made a case for it.
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I recently read an article in the NY Times about negotiating salaries, and it irked me. Author AC Shilton quotes Kim Churches, Chief Executive of the American Association of University Women, who states that when involved in salary negotiations “don’t be timid, but use the right inflection and wording choices”. This advice, is of course,
It’s natural to feel squeamish talking about money, particularly when it’s tied to the value of your skills and hard work. However, what workers — and many employers — may not realize, is that keeping salaries under wraps is proven to be more harmful to performance, hiring, and the economy at large, Burkus, who is
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Here’s a roundup of answers to five questions from readers. 1. New job offered me a lower salary than I expected I was recently interviewed for a job I was very excited about. I completed an online application for the job, and I know the starting wage was what I was looking for. When I
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Though Americans are notorious for skipping vacations, a new study shows an overwhelming majority of employees believe companies should offer paid time off as part of their benefits package. In fact, employees said, they’d turn down a job if paid time off weren’t offered. According to a survey by TSheets, a time-tracking and scheduling software
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HARTFORD (AP) — Beginning next year, Connecticut employers will no longer be allowed to ask prospective employees about their salary histories during job interviews. It’s one of a handful of new laws that are set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2019. Dubbed the “pay equity bill,” the 2018 legislation was part of an effort
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CLICK HERE FOR THE 2018 SALARY SURVEY PREMIUM EDITION This past November, amid a very tight U.S. labor market, the unemployment rate dropped to 4.1% nationally and to historic lows in some states. However, that hasn’t translated into sizable wage increases for the 1,053 comms pros that took the 2018 PRWeek/Bloom, Gross & Associates Salary
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As more students balk at the debt loads they face after graduation, some colleges are offering an alternative: We’ll pay your tuition if you offer us a percentage of your future salary. Norwich University announced Tuesday that it will become the latest school to offer this type of contract, known as an income share agreement.
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As a member of the frontline of a SaaS program, a huge amount of pressure is given to a sales development representative to deliver results. But that’s not to say that their hard work won’t be compensated accordingly. With the contributions one is able to impart, they do of course deserve to be rewarded along
