What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

salary information by perusing the Help Wanted ads in the local
newspaper for a week or two, assuming you still have a local paper! Most
of the ads won’t mention a salary figure, but a few may. Among those that
do, note what the lowest salary offering is, and what the highest is, and see
if the ad reveals any reasons for the difference. It’s interesting how much
you can learn about administrative assistants’ salaries, with this approach.
I know, because I was an administrative assistant myself, once upon a
time.
There’s a lot you can find out by talking to people. But another way to
do salary research—if you’re out of work and have time on your hands—is
to find a Temporary Work Agency that places different kinds of workers,
and let yourself be farmed out to various organizations: the more, the
merrier. It’s relatively easy to do salary research when you’re inside a
place. (Study what that place pays the agency, not what the agency pays
you after they’ve taken their “cut.”) If you’re working temporarily at a
place where the other workers really like you, you’ll be able to ask
questions about a lot of things there, including salary.