Plant Services - May 2008 - (Page 58) Save some green. Surveys” covering more than 50 broad job categories ranging from accounting to warehousing. Most categories are further subdivided, perhaps by job title, perhaps geography. If you’re dissatisfied with your current compensation or are simply curious about how a career change might affect your take-home pay, you could explore the earnings potential in many other fields of endeavor. Check out winery workers listed under the agricultural category. Data mining at the BLS LubeSite spring-powered greasers are refillable and reusable. Which is great for our environment. But what’s also great is that it will only cost you 20¢ of grease every three months to keep the reservoir full. Which is great for your bottom line. So anyway you spin it, switching to LubeSite will leave you seeing green. www.lubesite.com The data coming out of this next Web site are based on the most recent Occupational Employment Statistics survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Thanks to Jay Verdoorn from Wheatland, Calif., you won’t need to comb through countless pages of numbers to learn what our hired hands in Washington know about the real job market. Instead, you merely need to pay a visit to www.salaryteller.com and enter your criteria. You can find the results in either of two ways. Using the top section of the screen, There’s at least one subset of the U.S. population that has been getting guaranteed annual increases since 1975. you can select the nearest major city in your state and any of 22 main job classifications. The next screen requires you to select from a list of job subcategories before you see results. On the other hand, you can use the lower half of the screen to select a state on the first screen, the city on the second, occupational group on the third and occupation on the fourth. In either case, the results are an estimate of the number of people performing that job function and the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentile salaries. Grass is greener in summer If you decide that now is the time to move on to bigger and better things, you’ll need to deal with salary negotiations. A realistic pay rate is a function of geography, organizational size, your age, your sex as well as the gory details about the job itself and perhaps, even, several other relevant and irrelevant factors. Beware the embarrassment of a potential employer proving beyond any reasonable doubt that your idea of your own value is ridiculously inflated. What you need is thousands of people reporting their salaries and revealing the myriad factors surrounding their backgrounds and jobs. You could use that database to negotiate from a position of strength. Or, simply explore the other side of that metaphorical fence using www.payscale. com/mypayscale.aspx and its “Find Out What You’re Worth” feature. PayScale Inc., Seattle, the site’s owner, claims to have 58 www.PLANTSERVICES.com May 2008 http://www.salaryteller.com http://www.lubesite.com http://www.toppsproducts.com http://www.payscale.com/mypayscale.aspx http://www.payscale.com/mypayscale.aspx http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com
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