Employer Point of View: Salary

Last month, I still rememberred one of my staff was arguing with me regarding why I never add his/her salary after 1 year he/she has been working with us. Well, I just said it's company policy and I cannot add another explanation.

I still believe that most of businessman or managers around the world didn't or even never told the exact explanation of the above condition. Well, I would like to share some experience of us (employer) and those who work under us ( employees).

For employers, all employees are the same. But we do take more attention to employees whose heart is in the company, meaning they willing to work harder, and contribute much to company, you are very sure they will get extra from the company. Anyway, just for guidelines, here is how my company manage to judge the performance of the staffs.

The Standard:

The profit you manage to bring into the company = 3 x your current Salary

then you can ask for higher salary, but boss-es still have to think of other aspects, like are you do according to all the rules and regulations set by the company?

If only you manage to bring into the company = 2 x your salary, then according to your employer, you are just doing so - so and not doing extremely good.

But if you manage to bring in 5 x your salary (or above), then you will be taken care by your company, or else your boss is blind or ...... (there are other factors), but anyway, just leave the company. Y ou are worthy somewhere else.

Seems a little bit unfair? I mean, that's how employers measuring salary. Our main idea in starting business is to MAKE MONEY / PROFIT. If our company cannot produce any profit, we better close down our business and find other profitable business. Besides the salary, we still have to think of other type of costs that occured, including telephone bills, electricity bills, tax bills, and other types of bills.

As employers, we also want our employees to have a fine life, well spended with the salary given to him/her, and BE HAPPY with their own life. Although there are still some employers that want to cheat on their employees (there still will be..... we are HUMANS, remember?)

So, in future, everytime you want to ask for higher salary, make sure you count your performance first. How much profit you have been bring to the company? Have you do according to the rules and regulations set up by the company, even it's just regarding the working time? It doesn't necessary for you to please your boss by talking sweet and good stuff to your boss, but aside, your working attitude is lousy and all your work got problems.

After you checked on your performance, PLEASE.... REMIND US!! I mean, we are not GOD, that manage to know everyone's needs and wish. We are still normal human that have an ability to forgetting something (although we don't want to forget).

I often heard of my friends/ relatives that keeps moaning about how their boss didn't appreciate of their 5 to 10 years of contribution towards their company . Have they checked with their own performance lately? How are they doing compare to other staffs? Or the worst part is are their boss unintentionally miss to measure their performance for 5 to 10 years? (Well, sadly it do happen)

I hope that my sharing experience can help employers to give explanations to their employees; and for employees to further appreciate their employers. After all, Employers and Employees are unseparatable. So rather than fighting each other, it's better to understand each other.