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I've seen statistics saying an employer can get a bigger morale/retention boost from giving people a $500 monitor than $500 cash.
by michaelt 4y ago
I've seen statistics saying an employer can get a bigger morale/retention boost from giving people a $500 monitor than $500 cash.
- mattbrewsbytes 4y agoThis makes sense, you'd be staring at the monitor for hours a day but likely would spend the $500 on <something> and forget about it or more likely it would be direct deposited and just end up washing in with whatever monthly purchases you normally make.
- pyuser583 4y agoIf my employer gave me $500, I’d put it in savings. If I spent it on a monitor, my wife would be pissed.
- ultrasaurus 4y agoTaxes are a non-trivial consideration. Google employees in California have an almost 50% marginal tax rate plus I imagine Google gets better prices than retail monitors (plus someone else maintains it for you). So they'd need to give you ~+$1000 in salary/bonus instead of a $500 monitor to get the same monitor for personal use.
- gamblor956 4y agoIn order to have a marginal rate of 50% you would need to be making over $625k. In order to have a marginal rate of "almost" 50% you wuld need to be making over $312k. And if you're getting paid that much by a GAMMA its because California's economy, and the laws that gave rise to that economy, give you the market power to demand that sort of a salary. Because you're sure as sh3t not getting paid that much to do the same job in Kansas.