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Originally Posted by Willravel
It's not going to be linear. It's going to show priority. Let's say a corporation lands record profits one year (enough to invest more in the company AND pay people more) and the CEO and most of the upper management gets decent (4%+) raises and the bottom stays the same or decreases. What does that tell you? It tells you that the priority is to pay the upper management.
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I'm wondering if this often happens within the same company. When you start looking at stats that use averages, it's easy to misinterpret what that really means. When companies post record profits, how often does that lead to stagnant pay for employees or pay cuts? You'd think the normal thing would be to reward employees for a good job, or at least to retain their employee talent. Record-breaking profits generally are not sustainable. Smart companies usually look at competitive employee compensation as a way of maintaining stability.
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