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"cost center vs profit center" are the same thing as "bottom-line vs top-line" (as I referred to) just different audience. I'm not saying that people that cost
by busterarm 7y ago
"cost center vs profit center" are the same thing as "bottom-line vs top-line" (as I referred to) just different audience.
I'm not saying that people that cost money don't provide value but your compensation will always be minimized by management and bad managers will look for reasons to remove you from the balance sheet, even if they're bad ones.
If you're bringing the company money, the company could be literally on fire and you can still command a sizeable salary.
- iudqnolq 7y agoCompanies pay what the market will bear. If you're bringing in millions and could be replaced easily you'll make peanuts. If you're bringing in millions but don't negotiate your salary at all your employer will generally happily pay you less than your work is "earning". If you're a dev for a newspaper you'll be paid around what other similarly qualified devs make irregardless of whether you work on their subscription system (allegedly profit center) or on the backend their journalists use to post content (allegedly cost center) Edit: I absolutely agree our terms mean the same. That's why I said I was just providing the terms so people can Google existing articles on the subject.