{"id":356,"date":"2006-10-11T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T12:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=356"},"modified":"2006-10-11T07:24:39","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T12:24:39","slug":"new-blog-salary-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/new-blog-salary-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"New Blog &#8211; Salary Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received a comment from Sonia Meisenheimer at PayScale yesterday regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=318\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> from last month on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.payscale.com\/ask_dr_salary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ask Dr. Salary blog<\/a>. Sonia mentioned that the blog is actually run by PayScale and not CareerBuilder &#8211; my bad.<\/p>\n<p>PayScale has launched a new blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.payscale.com\/salarystories\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salary Stories<\/a> which I checked out this morning. I enjoyed the blog and their excellent use of YouTube (should I call that GoogleTube now?). Their description of the blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Salary Stories are true tales about working people who do what they love and love what they do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The videos are well done &#8211; I watched a couple of the interviews and they are quite compelling, earthy and insightful. The interview with founder of Cranium, Inc. &#8211; Whit Alexander is quite entertaining. He went from working for free in Africa to being employed by Microsoft and working on the first ever release of Encarta.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/www.salarystories.com\" target=\"_blank\">Salary Stories<\/a> &#8211; it is well worth the visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a comment from Sonia Meisenheimer at PayScale yesterday regarding this post from last month on the Ask Dr. Salary blog. Sonia mentioned that the blog is actually run by PayScale and not CareerBuilder &#8211; my bad. PayScale has launched a new blog called Salary Stories which I checked out this morning. I enjoyed the blog and their excellent use of YouTube (should I call that GoogleTube now?). Their description of the blog: Salary Stories are true tales about working people who do what they love and love what they do. The videos are well done &#8211; I watched a couple of the interviews and they are quite compelling,&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/new-blog-salary-stories\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compensation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-5K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":318,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/careerbuilder-and-payscale\/","url_meta":{"origin":356,"position":0},"title":"CareerBuilder and PayScale","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"September 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2 companies in the title of this post have released a new website - cbsalary.com. The site is a competitor of the long established salary.com website of which I am a fan. The CareerBuilder site has some interesting hooks to it including a direct link to current job listings\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Compensation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1517,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/salary-legalities\/","url_meta":{"origin":356,"position":1},"title":"Salary Legalities","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This I did not know - from a Pioneer Press short Q&A article (my editing): My company has a new district manager. He and I got off to a bad start when he divulged my salary in a mass e-mail and caused an uproar among my new co-workers. Some of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Compensation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/2006-salary-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":356,"position":2},"title":"2006 Salary Report","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"From S&MM Magazine (sorry, no link): The benefits of an improving economy trickled down to a lot of paychecks in 2006. The 2006 Survey of Exempt Compensation by Business and Legal Reports found 43 out of the 44 benchmarked-exempt positions saw salary increases averaging 3.9 percent. \"Respondents indicated that they\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1508,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/should-have-been-a-court-reporter\/","url_meta":{"origin":356,"position":3},"title":"Should Have Been A Court Reporter","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"My wife once took classes to become a court reporter.\u00a0 She even bought her own stenograph (is that what they are called?) for the training.\u00a0 Unfortunately, she never completed the training due to other circumstances. Unfortunate because court reporters earn an average salary of $59,970. 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The results are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":750,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/how-not-to-deal-with-the-salary-question\/","url_meta":{"origin":356,"position":5},"title":"How Not To Deal With The Salary Question","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 14, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From Foxnews.com's How to Deal With the Salary-Expectations Question: Don Sutaria, president and founder of CareerQuest, a staffing and training firm, advises job seekers to avoid offering a solid figure. \"Don't answer the question. Say, 'I'll expect the fair market value. 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