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Mar17
Salary Figures for Top Bloggers and A Salary Wizard Raise New Question

Salary figures for the top NYC bloggers may surprise you. They also raise the question ... Do time and talent tend to equal pay in today's workplace?

People who work for a salary based on their talents often tell you that at the end of their salary there’s still a lot of month left. But I’ve been wondering lately -- does meritocracy really work when it comes to money in your pocket?  

This morning I ran into an interesting salary wizard over at Salary.com that allows you to see salary range for teacher, doctor, manager, accountant, lawyer, programmer … and many more careers.  You just hit on your career and up pops the salary you can expect. The twenty most popular salary searches are also listed there. salary.gif

Are you making the salary that equals your talent?

It still surprises me that some fields far outrank other careers of equal but different requirements. Look at the difference between a writer and an electrical engineers coffers for instance.

Robyn McMaster shows figures that top bloggers in NYC haul in monthly and the salaries will likely surprise you.

Let’s face it some people’s talent  justifies their take home pay, and others simply learn to live with less.

Part of the inequity between talent and salary comes from the broken systems that defend bureaucratic routines over innovation. Talented people waste the brainpower it takes to create … simply to survive tenured or jealous co-workers who seem invested in defending the status quo.

I think Google was onto something when they started paying people for 20% of their time spent daily to create  and to develop their talent at work. What do you think?


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Ellen, do you sense that many entrepreneurs are talented in one area, and love using their talents, but may not have the business savvy or connections to rise to the top?

Likewise, I feel bloggers love to write on what they know. Many appear to do that for pure enjoyment because of those 150 top bloggers polled in NYC, 51% indicated they didn't make anything. Thoughts?

Robyn, what you suggest would make a very interesting study. I think talent gets squashed at broken systems - and talent rises up when people find ways to leverage their capabilities.

If the system was revised - more talent would be rewarded and less waste would occur.

Until then - it's encumbent upon people to optimise their talents, navigate broken systems, and earn a decent wage - at the same time.

Yikes - that's a lot to expect from an ordinary workday! What do you think?

Here's a few more insights. While someone might be very talented as a chef and have a great idea for a restaurant, they might not have the logical-mathematical smarts needed to take it to the place where it is a winner business wise. That is usually the glitch for many creative people.

Mack Collier and Tom Vanderwell brought up the fact that there are indirect benefits to blogging. Tom says that he gained two major clients through blogging and a lot of marketing. Mack said he had gained many new clients. I'm sure that these indirect benfits add much to those actual salaries listed there!

Thanks to you Robyn, and to Mack and Tom! That's also the ring I'll toss my own chips into on this one! Thanks for saying it so well -- I love the way you synthesize ideas Robyn! Cool!

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