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Re:How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay by wvenable on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:22AM (#25743105)
There is an entire industry around the collection of and aggregation of salary, benefits, and perk information. Every year your HR department pays a firm, fills out these surveys, and a few months later gets a report on salary ranges and perks for their industry.

If you think about it then it makes perfect sense, how else do businesses know they're offering competitive salaries, benefits, and perks?

Source: I consulted for a company that does these surveys and aggregates the results.

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Re:How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:46AM (#25743272)
> how else do businesses know they're offering competitive salaries, benefits, and perks?

I would assume from how many applicants negotiate - or outright reject - their job-offers

But yeah - I forgot about the consulting companies that do the survey thing.

But we have our own! https://www.levels.fyi/

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Re:How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay by pm90 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:29AM (#25743886)
Interestingly, I haven’t ever seen actual candidate data used to determine compensation. Ie companies almost never use a candidate demanding more to actually change anything. It’s all based on these “professional comp surveyors” as the parent has described.
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Re:How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:44AM (#25744471)
Unrelated: I'm sure we have our own fantasies of potential employers (or past-employers) begging us to work for them with them increasing their offers or offering other benefits - but I'm curious if that's ever actually happened to anyone.
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Re:How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay by sokoloff on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:55AM (#25745129)
Negotiations for big, non-standard benefits (custom health plan, greater retirement match) are practically impossible.

Negotiations for a custom salary are entirely normal IME.

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Re:How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay by freeone3000 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:03AM (#25745212)
You should absolutely negotiate salary. Saving a few ten thousands a year on salary for a department doesn't really mean that much to your manager or to the company, compared to filling that slot in the org chart.
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