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@Lana@beige.party Once, I was a manager at a major defense company. I was clicking through a file share full of HR stuff and came across a folder full of regional salary / benefit surveys. Every year, for every major location, HR bought a survey of pay/compensation for standardized job titles in that area to help them figure out what to pay employees. The eye opener for me was that the company policy was explicitly to pay about 90% of the market rate for engineers, but offer slightly above average benefits like FSA matching and stock purchase plans. At that point, it became obvious why I was having such a hard time attracting good engineer candidates. This sort of assholery is not random - it's carefully planned and was the official policy of the company. It must have been a coincidence that a different policy was to annually have the corporate anti-union guy fly to our site and train the managers on how to spot union activities.