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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by justinlardinois on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @02:20PM (#12211952)
> Here's an idea: compensation agents who negotiate the compensation package on your behalf. Athletes and actors have them, why not everyone else?

Because in your typical job you're trying to negotiate over a few thousand dollars in your annual salary. If you actually paid an agent enough for it to be worth it to them, you may as well have not negotiated at all because the money they won for you is just going in their pocket.

Athletes and actors are haggling over several millions of dollars. They've got plenty of fuck you money in there to pay an agent.

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Re:Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About... by mbreese on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @06:00PM (#12213754)
They could make up for it in volume. There's only so many athletes and actors around. And their contracts will be a hell of a lot more complicated than an engineer, so it should be quicker to negotiate.

Then again, in a different form, those compensation agents were simply known as unions.

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