Is our Pay EVER Really Satisfactory? Even When We Say So?
June 14th, 2007
The two crucial questions from my micro-survey on pay and satisfaction centered on, well, pay and satisfaction.
Are you satisfied with your level of pay?
45% or respondents said yes.
What amount of pay increase per year would provide you complete pay satisfaction at this current point in your life?
Only 10% said $0!
But how can this be? If 45% said they are satisfied with their current pay level, wouldn’t you then expect 45% to say they needed $0 increase as an answer to the follow-up question? Hmmm.
What’s your theory for this puzzling discrepancy?
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1. Alan Gutierrez | June 14th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
A preposterous poll question, perhaps?
Am I satisfied with my pay? Yes. Yes, I am. Quite.
How much more for *complete* pay satisfaction?
Now you are asking me for a number. Zero is not a number I’d be likely to give. If you’re going to ask me how much more money I want, it is against my experience to say zero. I say something, because I just might get it.
Seriously, the first question has one of two answers. The latter questions has an infinate number of anwseres.
Again, anyone in sales will tell you that open ended questions will give you more consideration, more response.
2. noemi | June 14th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Lacan said we live in perpetual desire. Every satisfaction we have results incomplete and we always need to return to the hole we feel, the inner esencial emptiness.
3. hildigunnur | June 15th, 2007 at 4:39 am
well, since people tend to use whatever money they earn, and then just this tiny bit more.
I’m sort of happy with my pay, think I asked for $10.000 more, since I’d like to buy out the guy upstairs, so my family’d own the whole house
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