Workplace Insight

APRIL 24, 2024

Research shows that a staggering 36 percent of engineers and architects, and 35 percent of workers in computer and math fields, were subject to noncompete clauses. “They will have more freedom to choose where they work and can expect to command higher salaries.”

Government

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

On my 300-baud modem connected to an Apple II computer, I researched penny stocks on the Vancouver Stock Exchange via CompuServe, The Source and Dow Jones Newswires. According to him, the entrepreneur has unlimited upside with limitless earning potential, while a job is fixed with a salary and maybe a bonus. Money is no different.

Banking

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

The Chinese-born American is integral to the smooth running of AWS, which provides worldwide on-demand cloud computing platforms. federal government, Deloitte, Google and Rubrik before landing her at AWS. My entire family—my dad, mom, sister and myself—all lived on a salary of less than $20,000 a year.

Work Ethic

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JUNE 1, 2020

If I’m at my computer all day waiting for work to come in, and only a few things come in that take me a total of six hours, do I not get paid for my eight-hour day? You may also like: my company charges us PTO when we work from home while sick can salaried employees be required to fill out a timesheet?

Computer

Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Ensuring compliance of the company's working with the governing laws. Policy audits are also necessary to ensure that each of them has full compliance with the governing legal norms. Salary and Working Hours. This audit looks into uncovering mistakes in the company's salary structure and working hours for its workers.

Salary

Success

APRIL 22, 2024

Other similar positions involve tasks like being responsible for “intellectual and physical control” over archaeological collections and preserving old objects, a Delaware government job posting suggests. To become an ethical hacker, most people have a degree in computer science. Shoppers and historians—this one’s for you.

Salary

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MAY 12, 2020

– I receive an additional $600 per week via the federal government package. And the media and the government haven’t done a good job of educating people about the math. This stands true for me: – My premiums are paid so I don’t have to buy insurance. – I receive my weekly unemployment.

Insurance

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MARCH 14, 2016

Should I apply for a job if the posted salary is too low? I’m hoping to work in local government in a major metropolitan area that has proven to be very difficult to break into. Plus, this is a government job, which means that the salary is very unlikely to change. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

Salary

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

whose bloody computer is still starting up. If you divide my monthly salary by 30 days, $90 is what I earn in one day. I will have to cough up an entire day’s salary (worth three weeks of lunch expenses!) But it’s not normal to treated salaried professionals this way. an hour late. 90 is what I earn in a day.

Salary

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

My job history since has felt like a series of unfortunate events – highlights from different jobs include: “Color-geddon,” where the CEO insisted we completely redo a major rebrand after it’d already launched because his longest term developer claimed the colors “hurt his eyes” (one of his computer monitors was broken).

Retail

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OCTOBER 19, 2015

My job requires a lot of glove use but not the whole time I am with a patient, like while I’m on the computer or setting up and the tattoo on my finger is visible. He also has worked at our current company two years less than me, and makes a substantially larger salary! I direct a mid-sized government agency.

Advertising

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

My company doesn’t post salaries or salary ranges with job descriptions. But we’re a small and close team, and we’ve all recently discussed our salaries. I was on the hiring team for her position, though not part of the negotiation process, and assumed the position would have the same starting salary as my own.

Salary

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MARCH 26, 2018

At the end of 2016 with the pending overtime law, the organization decided to change all full-time development staff to from (salaried) full-time exempt to hourly full-time non?exempt. I am becoming increasingly frustrated with the way our organization handles overtime during our busy event season, and am wondering if it’s completely legal.

Legal

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DECEMBER 8, 2019

I asked for them to email me back acknowledging my invoices, and there were a few hiccups, but then… Wait for it… They put me on part time salary with regular direct deposit! I now have dental and health benefits and they bought me a brand new work computer!!!! This story has a happy ending!

Finance

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

I work in a small county government office in a rural community. Administration has traditionally given an across-the-board percentage increase to employee salaries at the end of each year. But really, everyone is getting the exact same dollar amount of salary increase because they all work the same number of hours each year.

Salary

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I find it uncomfortable for at least two reasons: * Most of the staff are teachers, aides, and paras and the school principal’s salary is significantly more than the staff’s. Set an alarm for the full hour, turn off your computer, and don’t go back to it until the alarm goes off.

Problem-Solving

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JUNE 3, 2015

And yes, there are certainly employers with total salary transparency, where everyone knows what everyone else makes, or government agencies where salary is public record — but I’m assuming that’s not the case here. People keep interrupting my work to ask for directions.

Cubicle

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Everything we do is through the computer, and I’m very, very worried. Boss won’t tell me the salary range for my job. I am certain that my current salary is below the minimum range for my position. What options do I have for obtaining the new salary range? What options do I have for obtaining the new salary range?

Interviewing

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MARCH 5, 2018

The position would have been a huge increase in salary as well as title, but the job duties are the same as I am doing in my current position with the exception of having a small team to supervise. The position has not been filled as of today. I was a bit flustered but said yes. ” I thought it was a bit strange but went with it.

Food

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APRIL 12, 2016

I make a good salary at my job and have other privileges, like getting to work from home one day a week. One part of my job is assisting people who need help with the computers. He hasn’t asked for help with the resume, just with the computer. My boss told me I’m overpaid. What do you think? What should I do?

Cleaning

Vantage Circle

JULY 13, 2021

It includes the money paid to employees in wages, salaries, bonuses, perks, and other intangible benefits. In a total rewards system, compensation comprises base salary and extra benefits that come under variable pay. A salary increase is necessary but not sufficient to recruit and retain talented employees. Compensation.

Flexibility

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

And then turn back to your computer and work on other things , like you need to. Our company works on government contracts and they are taking the allegations seriously. The next time she questions your work or pulls up a chair, say this: “I need to work on other things right now, but I’ve got this under control.”

Retail

Insperity

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The FLSA is a federal law that establishes the minimum wage, overtime pay, record-keeping and youth employment standards governing the employer-employee relationship. The common misconception is that all employees paid by salary are exempt. Total pay for the week would be $667.50, not just the $600 salary. What is the FLSA?

Salary

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This post, I took a promotion without knowing the salary, coworker uses Comic Sans, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. I took a promotion and then found out the salary is too low. The tricky part is, I wasn’t told a salary or even a range before I started (I KNOW!). Here we go….

Salary

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

1. “I am an ‘older’ worker, and had gotten to a comfortable position in a government agency (let’s say llama inspector) that, while not the best, I thought I could ride to retirement. And, I am making more than double my previous salary! It’s your Friday good news! In September 2020 I landed an interview.

Salary

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APRIL 21, 2020

We’ve been paying her full salary and benefits for over a month now while she stays home since before our local stay at home order came through. As long as we’re both still getting our full salaries, we can afford to keep paying her just as we would in normal times. We miss her dearly right now! Would it hurt her credit?

Insurance

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MAY 31, 2022

A reader writes: I work for the state government in Virginia, and I oversee a division of 15+ people. As for what to do … government employment can be very much its own world. It’s not one I have expertise in and so you might get more targeted advice by talking to someone with government experience. But yes, this is ridiculous.

Equipment

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JULY 22, 2015

I am a contractor at a government agency. They have tried to hire me every year but they can’t match my salary so they just keep renewing my contract. I know this because as a government agency they post everyone’s salary on a website so anyone can look. The applications are for government positions.

Construction

Vantage Circle

JULY 16, 2021

The term "blue-collar" refers to a type of service where jobs are often manually labored, waged, or salaried. They can go to training or technical colleges that are often fully funded by the government. Provide them monetary rewards like bonuses, salary hikes, any other tangible rewards. It involves-.

Manufacturing

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Sara works for a well-known global company and I have just received an email from someone claiming to be her manager, asking me to pay the equivalent of one week of Sara’s salary for the time she had to take off work to deal with the conflict. Now I am not too sure. As a manager, I would want to know this.

Logistics

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JULY 18, 2022

One time, the bread machine caused a shortage along the entire row of outlets and caused everyone’s computers to die. Back in the 90s, at age 25, I landed my first salaried office job. I am late 30s and work for the government. These were all graphic designers. Anything unsaved was totally lost and we were NOT popular.

Cubicle

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APRIL 2, 2017

I know that the federal government often exempts itself from its own rules, but I was wondering if it is okay for Ivanka Trump to work for free? No — the Fair Labor Standards Act contains an exception that allows people to volunteer for government agencies (which is why unpaid internships are legal in government as well).

Government