Satisfaction vs. Salary
“If you hear a lot of griping about salaries, you shouldn’t look just at your system for paying people. One thing I’ve learned from experience is that happy, motivated employees who are doing work they love, and feel they are being treated as adults, don’t gripe about money unless their pay is egregiously unfair. If you hear a lot of complaints about salaries, I suspect that’s probably a manifestation of a much bigger disease: your employees aren’t deriving enough personal satisfaction from their work, or they are miserable for other reasons.
It takes a lot of salary to make up for a cruel boss or a prison-like workplace. And rather than adjusting pay, you might chose to focus on some non-monetary ways to make employees happy.”
- Joel Spolsky, co-founder and CEO of Fog Creek Software and the host of the popular blog Joel on Software, as quoted in Inc. Magazine.
A higher salary doesn’t equal higher job satisfaction. While some organizational problems require money to fix, improving job satisfaction requires meaningful work, high performing teammates, and high-fives all-around!
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