Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Tag: Compensation

đź”— SaaSy Questions #1: Compensation Heuristics (#)

“Compensation won’t make people happy on its own Compensation alone can make people very upset Compensation helps to create owners”

June 27th, 2023 • compensation

Making a Compelling Offer — in this economy?

An edited transcript of a talk I delivered at the CTOCraft Hiring MiniConf. How do you make a job offer that’ll be accepted when other companies are out there offering candidates over a million dollars?
June 16th, 2022 • compensation conference hiring offers slides talk

What is your labor worth? Tech compensation in 2021

Salaries in tech are going up, and many people are looking for new jobs or reevaluating the ones they have. However, many tech workers have no idea what their labor is worth on the open market. There’s a huge information asymmetry here: employers have access to detailed industry data on salaries, but workers don’t. In this article, I’ll share a method people can use to determine the “market rate” for their skills. I’ve developed this method over the last six months, as I’ve helped nearly 100 people figure out their worth. Feedback has been that this is pretty accurate, so I’m sharing the technique here so you can use it to determine what your labor is worth.
October 13th, 2021 • compensation jobs labor salary value