--- Iain Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bryan Burgers wrote: > > On 9/26/07, Graham Hutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Salary will be within the range 25,134 - 32,796 pounds per year, > >> depending on qualifications and experience. The post is available > >> immediately, and will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 3 years. > > > > I don't mean to diminish the seriousness of your message, but why is > > the salary range so exact? Couldn't you have just rounded the upper > > bound to 32,768 for the sake of readability? > I would imagine that they come from the University's salary scales[1]. > As for why the salaries on there are so exact, that's anyone's guess. > [1] http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hr/scales/r-t010807%2B.pdf
I used to work for a county goverment in the USA where I started at $8.886 per hour and left at $12.998 per hour. Even multiplying by 2080 hours per annum resulted in decimal places. It was probably part of the percentage increases we received each year: somehow it made the infaamous bean counters happy... _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
