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MY CONSIDERATION EXPERIENCE 1

 Why salary matter again? It is salary matter again because I see so many people slaving away their lives by receiving peanuts because they fear to look out of their present slave camps called employment.

Let me share with you my salaries at the point of joining four Public Limited Companies (Plc)

1. N14,010 p.a.

2. N313,700 p.a.

3. N234,304 p.a.

4. N6,043,480 p.a.

All four companies could be group into two by Ownership and Management.

Another way, you could group them into two is by the salaries they paid.

What appeared common to all was their manufacturing businesses.

The major difference between all companies based on industrial location, is the availability of avenue for salary negotiation. While numbers 1 and 3 did not give room for salary negotiation, numbers 2 and 4 gave ample room for salary negotiation.

The question then is, why did you take the number 1 job? I went to the school of experience.

I hereby fail to provide the salaries at the point of leaving these companies to protect you against petty jealousies, reason being that with some of them especially those of foreign ownership, the salaries became dangerously high. The dangerously high salaries were not unconnected with internal management policies and procedures of management magnanimity, collective bargaining and performance management system increment.

To avoid distuccion, I did not add management contributions to employees NPF, NSITF and Contributory Pension Funds.

My last word to you is, when you attend interviews and the companies do not give room for salary negotiations, DO NOT take such jobs because such companies do not care about employees welfare.

Next week, I shall share my consideration experiences with Private Limited Companies with multi-billion naira turnovers, but called in my clime as One-man business.

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