Are You Paid What You're Worth: A Complete Guide to Calculating and Negotioating the Salary, Benefits, Bonus, and Raise You Deserve

In this age of downsizing, paycuts, and shrinking health-care contributions, employees on all rungs of the corporate ladder are increasingly baffled by company pay structures, benefits packages, and bonus plans.  What might look like a nice raise on the surface often translates into a virtual pay cut when all the components are figured in.  And what's more, until now, employers have had a monopoly on the knowledge of how these systems actually work, leaving employees virtually defenseless.

Now, in Are You Paid What You're Worth?, long-time corporate insider and compensation consultant Michael O'Malley exposes the inner workings of compensation systems and provides a specific formula that allows anyone--from the cubicle-dweller up to the CEO--to determine his or her own competitive worth.  Packed with practical tips and strategies, and spiced with real-life examples from big-name companies, Are You Paid What You're Worth? arms you with the information, confidence, and strategies you need to:

Compute the overall market worth of your job
Increase your base salary, or negotiate a salary at a new job
Improve your chances of receiving bonuses and other cash/non-cash awards
Know the pros and cons of different equity plans, and what to look for in company benefits
Increase the total compensation package you receive from your employer

Michael O'Malley, a Ph.D.  in psychology, is a practicing management and compensation consultant with over fifteen years of experience.  Currently employed at a major consulting firm, O'Malley has designed compensation programs and benefits plans for more than one hundred major corporations, including PepsiCo, AT&T, Fisher-Price, and Aetna.  He lives with his wife in New Haven, Connecticut.