Are you being paid what you are worth?

Go to the "Find A Job" section and compare your salary, bonus, and benefits to other jobs at properties/companies of similar size and quality to yours. Also take a look at the "Job Requirements" those employers have. How do those requirements compare to yours?

Most of us think of salary, bonus and benefits when we think of compensation. Those are certainly important, but there are other factors.
Here is a list of 7. You can probably think of more.

1. How rapidly is your employer preparing you for promotion?
2. Are your job duties challenging?
3. Do you enjoy your current job?
4. What is your work environment like?
   • Is the property properly maintained?
   • Is it clean?
   • Are people polite and friendly? (Or demanding and overbearing? Or do they continually put people down?)
   • Does the management team really care about people? (Or are they just giving it lip service?)
5. Do your bosses have reasonable expectations from you and your Department? (Or is it a pressure cooker?)
6. Are you working in a low cost of living area? Or a high cost of living area?
7. Do you have a long commute to work? Or a short commute?

These areas we refer to as "soft compensation." These are the areas people rarely consider.

Checklist:

1. Before you start to interview rate your current employer on each of the above. Use a 1-5 scale (1 is low and 5 is high).
2. Next rate the importance of each of the above to you. Use the same 1-5 scale.
3. Now compare A to B to identify how well your current job is meeting the things that are most important to you.
4. When you look for a new job, make sure that it rates higher on the "soft compensation" than your current job does.