>)I might not think that I have to compete on salary to get top talent. I may have a method of convincing talent to work here based on non-financial incentives.

>)I might not think that I have to compete on salary to get top talent. I may have a method of convincing talent to work here based on non-financial incentives. Great point and I sort of side stepped that. It's not one not talked about enough. I didn't get a sense of that from the poster I replied to, but perhaps there is a compelling story there.