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PayScale Premium for Salary Negotiation provides a detailed comparative compensation picture that can help you understand your value in the marketplace.

Details include:

• Your peer group's salary range, bonuses and benefits.
• The skills that are most rewarded for your peer group.
• How experience, education, location, memberships, certifications, gender impact your total compensation.

PayScale Premium for Salary Negotiation uses patent pending algorithm to compare your survey to that of others in your peer group that goes well beyond simple job title matching to determine who should be included in your peer group. Your peer group is determined by how you answer each question in the survey. This produces a much more accurate and personalized report than is available anywhere else.

Your accurate and reliable report can be used to discuss compensation with your manager, plan for a job change, or simply satisfy your curiosity.
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PayScale Premium for Salary Negotiation Membership, only $19.95, gives individuals the accurate facts and negotiation know-how they need in order to make smart, informed career decisions.

PayScale Premium for Salary Negotiation includes:

• Jack Chapman’s Salary Negotiation Guide, PDF version.
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• Comparative salary or hourly rate data along with bonus and commission.
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• Learn how location, experience, and education influence pay in your field.
• Up to ten profiles of others with similar job titles.
• Job listings and educational opportunities that match your profile.
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My PayScale Membership is FREE and provides a basic salary comparison to individuals with similar job titles in the same geographic area.

My PayScale includes:

• Comparative salary or hourly cash compensation data.
• Up to three profiles of others with similar job titles.
• Job listings and educational opportunities that match your profile.

The Practical Guide to Salary Negotiation by Jack Chapman is available to all PayScale Premium for Salary Negotiation Members.

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When the system analyzes your personal compensation information, patent-pending DataTrust Technology™ selects only data that is applicable to your job profile. Every question you are asked during the survey helps our computers determine your peer group. This produces a much more accurate and personalized report than is available anywhere else.

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