{"id":8850,"date":"2005-04-20T22:56:39","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T19:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/20\/on-salaries\/"},"modified":"2005-07-04T19:09:06","modified_gmt":"2005-07-04T16:09:06","slug":"on-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/20\/on-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"On salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>The question of salaries is, I think, one of the most important in the business world.  How much should an employee get paid?  How much is too much?  How much is too low?<\/p>\n<p>The other day I was thinking about ways of finding the ideal salary amount.  This is close to impossible, of course.  But I managed to find a nice measurement for the managers to compare.  If employee, by accident, will one day destroy the boss&#8217;s car, which supposedly is not insured against accidents like this, than employee&#8217;s salary should be high enough to provide a realistic payback period.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the more expensive boss&#8217;s car gets, the more employees should be rewarded for their work.  Nice and fair, isn&#8217;t it? :)<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>The question of salaries is, I think, one of the most important in the business world. How much should an employee get paid? How much is too much? How much is too low? The other day I was thinking about ways of finding the ideal salary amount. This is close to impossible, of course. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/20\/on-salaries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On salaries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1968,167,123,166,2416],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-business","tag-ideas","tag-money","tag-salary","tag-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15434,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/25\/civil-servants-salaries-in-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":8850,"position":0},"title":"Civil servants salaries in Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Cyprus Mail reports: Around 65 per cent of civil servants (some 35,000) are paid wages that are substantially higher than the national average. 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