Florida Employers Are Pathetically Cheap!
By Nick at 16 June, 2007, 8:33 pm
Have you ever noticed that every Florida employer posting an ad on one any of the major job boards wants an “experienced” employee, albeit an Administrative Assistant or my favorite, a “dynamic” Office Asst. When you look at the compensation that they are offering, it is in the range of $7 to $10 per hour. Yet, when a job seeker gets offered a job, they are offered at a rate $7 to $10 per hour no matter how experience that job seeker happens to be.
So you want your new employee to be”proficient” and know every software program known to man. In addition to doing every mundane task that you don’t want to do, you then make an offer of $10 per hour to someone who has 5 plus years experience in the field that you are seeking. Are you joking? There are many candidates out there who have been working in an office environment and have tremendous amount of experience to fulfill the job duties. What makes an employer think that a qualified job seeker will want to waste his or her time and expertise and bust their ass for a measly $10 per hour? Florida employers need to get a clue!
Florida employers, big and small, need to do their research into how much the salaries for a particular position is. An entry-level, unexperienced Admin. Asst. (or Legal Secretary) should be making $10 to $11 an hour. Two years experience - $13/hr - $14/hr. Four to five years experience - $15/hr to $18/hr. Five or more years experience - $18/hr+.Â
There are many employers out there that do the right thing and pay a fair wage. So kudos to all the fair and just employers. I know there are some out there that pay top dollar salaries for top dollar employees.
My favorite ads are the ones that offer $7 - $9 per hour and say, “GREAT FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS.” I just love these ads. In this technological age where distance education is growing at a rapid pace, everyone is a college student. I also happen to be a graduate student at Liberty University pursuing an MBA. No qualified candidate should be desperate enough to work for peanuts and still have to answer to your every whim. It is time that Florida employers begin to wise up.
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