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Dry promotions: Definition, considerations, and guidelines for employers

BMT Office Administration

Getting a promotion is an exciting event for employees. However, some of that excitement is probably due to the pay raise that they expect will come with the promotion. But sometimes employers offer promotions without an increase in pay, a growing phenomenon called dry promotions. What is a dry promotion?

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What You Can Learn About Making Decisions From a Baseball Umpire

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The life of a baseball umpire At the major league level, the starting salaries for umpires is $120,000. Two former umpires, many retired from the major leagues, see each umpire in his respective league six times. It’s worth noting that the number of promotions is contingent on how many major league umpires retire or aren’t asked back.

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Their website -Wikipedia page -Recent news articles -Salary dot com -Glassdoors dot com -Anyone you know who worked there or currently does -Social media outlets -Job description I typically print all these out a couple of days before a call or meeting. For example, I got promoted after being at a company fairly quickly.

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Answering Reader Mail: How Long is it Fair to be a Temp for a Job?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

It is known that age only plays a factor because the more years you have worked for a company the more expensive an employee is because of their salary, overtime, and other perks/benefits that are considered in the overall compensation package (401k matching, retirement, etc). In hindsight, I am 99.9%

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Besides, as I was told when I was looking at the dismal entry-level salaries being offered when I graduated, and my Dad was wondering aloud why he had paid $$$ for a degree that wouldn’t get me much more than minimum wage (I wanted to go into book publishing, go figure), I shared the quote I got from the university’s job office.

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Time to think about the retirement fund.&# “We get to retire? No one ever told me that…&# We both know there’s no retirement fund in what we do. Holiday Season Kicks Off – 2 Weeks in Review! But when Deb mentioned the words ‘retirement fund’ and I actually barked a laugh, I started to think. (A

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