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When it comes to keeping good people, money isn’t everything. Challenge, growth opportunities, flexibility, great co-workers, meaningful work and recognition (often in non-monetary forms) are [...]

All the talk of bigger paychecks has your attention. You’d like a bigger one yourself and you’d rather not have to show up with an offer just to get a raise. How do you position yourself to get [...]

If you haven’t had big dollars thrown at you by a BV employer, you probably know someone who has. Those offers are out there. Why shouldn’t you go after one?

Rising salaries in BVFLS have everyone’s attention. Maybe yours. If true, you should be looking at your situation through an accurate lens. What does that mean?

One of your employees tells you she has a job offer somewhere else. Maybe you saw the signs that something was amiss. Perhaps a new job opportunity just fell in her lap. You may think about [...]

Every practice makes pay decisions differently. What do you know about the rationale behind how those decisions are made where you work?

If you’ve never said it, you’ve heard it from someone else. It sounds like such a reasonable question. You calculate the ‘worth’ of things all the time. Why can’t someone do that for a job?

If there was a Question Hall of Fame, this one would be in it. Sometimes you’d like to know before comp conversations begin. Sometimes you need to know if the offer isn’t what you thought it would be.

Relying on friends and colleagues for advice about your BV career is like the story of the blind men and the elephant. Each person you ask has a piece of the puzzle. Who can put the puzzle [...]

Take a breath. No, you’re probably not paying your people too much. But you would still like to know how much you should be paying them. Why is that question so hard to answer?