Re:Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo
by MaxBarraclough on Saturday February 22, 2020 @04:24PM
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I presume you're referring to the value of retaining employees?
I'd be curious to see an economist take a look at what's going on here. The software-development profession continues to incentivise employees to constantly change jobs, despite that employers pay a real 'onboarding penalty' for employee churn.
If someone knows the answer I'd be interested to hear it.
> as much as is consistent with the value the employees deliver
But what does that mean? If an employee delivers $100,000/year of value, how how much should you pay them? Surely the answer (regarding the employer's self-interest) should factor in the odds of them leaving at any given pay-grade. The answer presumably isn't $99,999. The employer is looking to 'capture value', after all.
I'd be curious to see an economist take a look at what's going on here. The software-development profession continues to incentivise employees to constantly change jobs, despite that employers pay a real 'onboarding penalty' for employee churn.
If someone knows the answer I'd be interested to hear it.
> as much as is consistent with the value the employees deliver
But what does that mean? If an employee delivers $100,000/year of value, how how much should you pay them? Surely the answer (regarding the employer's self-interest) should factor in the odds of them leaving at any given pay-grade. The answer presumably isn't $99,999. The employer is looking to 'capture value', after all.