Salary information (Score 1)

There are books where you can deconstruct the salary structure. A typical rule is that the median of 'bands' are 15% apart and bands are abou 20% wide. Further companies like most employees to sit at the median of a pay band. As a real crude estimate, you could fetch the salaries of the senior executives off of their SEC-filed docs and work down the salary structure. Be sure to not use the CEO as they aren't part of the structure. Also only look at the salary portion of the compensation because bonuses and equity don't count. Usually companies have no idea what's competitive, so they just purchase compensation guidelines for their industry. Take a look at this: http://www.culpepper.com/eBulletin/2006/NovemberPa yTrends.asp You spend years getting education, months looking for an interview, weeks or days preparing and then when it comes down to salary you go "okay, works for me." Nonsense, get educated on the topic. Good luck and help drive up all of our compensation. timtiptoes