Competiive Salary, based on cost of living in a particular location (where
someone actually does the COL research)
401K
Inexpensive insurance (with all or a large part subsidized by the company)
With prescription benefits (low co pay)
Real Training benefits, where the company pays for training ahead of time,
not the "you pay for it and we'll pay you back when you
finish.....eventually"
Training includes seminars like CFUnited
Book allowance
Metrocheck (it's a program where the company pulls public transportation
costs pre tax, up to a certain level)
Cool stuff
Product discount programs
Anyone who's a Dell business customer can set this up for
their employees
Company parties
Company outings (team building)
Pool Tables, Foosball, air hockey, video games etc.
Scott A. Stewart
REAC/PASS-IT
(202)-475-8875
"Adam Churvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
10/03/2006 10:57 AM
Please respond to cf-community
To: CF-Community <[email protected]>
cc: (bcc: Scott A. Stewart/REAC/HHQ/HUD)
Subject: Employee compensation
For some reason the topic of employee compensation keeps coming up
recently in personal conversations, and my last experience with it was
twenty years ago in our family's previous business, so I'm terribly out of
date on the subject.
What would you say is a good compensation package -- salary, benefits,
etc? The hypothetical person being compensated would be talented in the
technologies s/he is currently using, wanting to learn exciting new
technologies, blah blah blah -- typical headhunter BS description.
Before you fire back with "Eight million dollars, company car, etc, etc,"
I'm looking for serious answers -- if I can get them from you guys ;) I
could really use some perspective.
Also, what are the intangibles you find most important in companies that
are hiring? Some of the people I've been talking with left a previous job
because of things that I would normally find trivial compared to
employment as a whole, but then again I wasn't there.
One thing I've heard from lots of people I've talked to is how violated
they feel when they are forced to take drug tests or the like. And things
like background checks for credit or criminal history. I know there are
fields where things like this are considered necessary, but I'm narrowing
the scope to our industry because it's the only one I'm familiar with.
Any feedback you guys can give me would be appreciated. I don't know why
this is so much in my mind, but when it gets like this I have to go all
the way through a subject before I'm done with it.
Respectfully,
Adam Phillip Churvis
Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer
BlueDragon Alliance Founding Committee
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