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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

When we decide to hire someone, the interviewers who were involved in the "hire" decision will sit down with the candidates resume and salary history and figure out what level they will start at. Some companies actually consider it a firing offense to reveal your salary! Its neat and egalitarian.

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The four rules for motivating your employees with money.

Berkonomics

Should be overwhelm prospective employees with stock options and perks? Salaries or hourly wages must be within reasonable limits set by the industry and matched by the competition, both regionally and for the same job classification. But how about listing the basics for designing an excellent incentive compensation program?

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Management Quality Assurance

Ben's Blog

How do your salary and stock option packages compare to the companies that you compete with for talent? Here are some key requirements: World-class process design skills —Much like the head of quality assurance, the head of HR must be a masterful process designer. Compensation. Training and Integration.

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Capital?

Austin Startup

For the time being, you’ll spend 40–50% less on renting a home or office and 20–30% less on employee salaries, while not giving up that much in terms of the startup ecosystem. If you’ve just exited or realised stock options from a Silicon Valley success story, moving out of state is worthwhile. However, prices are rocketing.

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How To Start A Business The Right Way

The Startup Magazine

For instance, Steve Jobs had no engineering skill, but he had clear design ideas and knew how to build a great brand. If your vision is powerful enough, you can make up for this by offering recruits stock options. It’s not just about reducing your workload. Nobody is perfect and your team has to compliment your skill set.

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How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)…

www.drowningamerican.com

Do you have any idea how sweet that salary will taste to them? Any reasonable founder salary I pay myself (I’m ball-parking $70k… maybe a bit less) will already be a higher salary than I’ve ever earned in my life. Design experience also a plus. Competitive salary once we obtain funding.

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Money motivates.

Berkonomics

Salaries or hourly wages must be within reasonable limits set by the industry and matched by the competition, both regionally and for the same job classification. And there are some industries where tools such as stock options are considered mandatory for a company to be competitive. What a title. Of course money motivates.