# compensation
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20:12Round 4 — Complete salary transparencyAl Elliott: Number 2. Let me just look it up. Okay. You discover— oh, this is quite similar. You discover that at your new job, they have complete salary transparency, i.e., everyone knows what everyone else earns LeanneEP 324 · 4 Aug 2026·interview· 20:12–26:3828:31Lovable's automatic 10% pay riseLeanne Elliott: Wow! Al Elliott: Now bear in mind this is a This is a small company really in terms of AI. I think it's 100 and let me just check. I did— Jake Tuber: I was gonna say it's just one employee.EP 300 · 12 May 2026·news roundup· 28:31–35:4846:56Workplace Surgery: Keeping great people when you can't compete on payLeanne Elliott: No, no, you go first Al Elliott: We've got an interview this Thursday coming out with Josh Levine, and he talked exactly about this. And in fact, he interviewed someone called Gary Ridge, who was the CEO EP 238 · 7 Oct 2025·workplace surgery· 46:56–52:0321:12Hot Take — Let's talk about pay, with Rameez KaleemAl Elliott: We actually have a lot in common. We both use behavioural science to help people do better. Better at work Al Elliott: It can Leanne Elliott: But come backEP 214 · 15 Jul 2025·hot take· 21:12–36:1226:15Team leads vs managers — and why leads aren't paid moreAl Elliott: You've mentioned 2 words there. You said team lead and you said manager. Are these the same people? James Hawkins: Yeah, pretty much now they are. And to start off with, it wasn't really the case, but yeah. SEP 189 · 17 Apr 2025·interview· 26:15–33:0017:15Can one pillar compensate for another?Leanne Elliott: Is it possible to focus on one variable to compensate for another? So, if I'm thinking 6.5 hours of sleep is about all I'm going to get a night over the next 6 months, but I'm going to work really hard onEP 171 · 13 Feb 2025·interview· 17:15–19:3729:46Workplace Surgery: Reevaluating employee benefits packagesAl Elliott: So is it really as simple? I mean, this could be literally the only 2-word reply we've got to a clinic question. Is it really as simple as just going, what do you want? And then here's my secondary question fEP 142 · 5 Nov 2024·workplace surgery· 29:46–33:2419:15Salary insights and career progressionAl Elliott: What can you expect to earn in a tech job? Well, like any industry, there's a huge range of salaries available. And of course it also is dependent on where you are in the world, but John gives us a rough guidEP 135 · 10 Oct 2024·panel interview· 19:15–23:132:36Story 1: Salary transparency and Gen Z talentLeanne Elliott: I came across some interesting news about salary transparency I thought was worth talking about, um, and especially worth thinking about for small business owners looking to hire Gen Z talent, which is a EP 134 · 8 Oct 2024·news roundup· 2:36–7:1216:37Competing when you can't match salariesAl Elliott: If an employer is a little bit restricted on the amount that they can actually pay, then do you think that an employer brand could almost make up for that if they haven't got the ability to pay the huge bucksEP 115 · 15 Jul 2024·interview· 16:37–22:1111:41Rethinking total compensation and ambitionLeanne Elliott: I think what's interesting about Cate is that she's helping women and basically anyone to embrace the idea that you don't need to fight your way to the top to have a great job or a great career. I'm prettEP 114 · 10 Jul 2024·interview· 11:41–16:4821:03How to measure success in the middleCate Luzio: Well, number one is, are they getting paid? Right? So compensation is a big measure of, and again, I use success and performance. If I'm being penalized because I'm not climbing the ladder, that's a differentEP 114 · 10 Jul 2024·interview· 21:03–27:450:33Hero Tax: Why Heroic Jobs Earn LessAl Elliott: Nice Leanne Elliott: Hello and welcome to Truth, Lies and Work, the award-winning psychology podcast Brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. My name isEP 109 · 25 Jun 2024·news roundup· 0:33–5:3217:57Outsetter's choose-your-own-adventure compensation modelAl Elliott: What I love is that Leanne's basically going, I don't want to hear about it now. Shut up, Al. We were talking about this, this Jeff guy. So on Twitter/X, I don't know how to call it. I suppose I should be calEP 101 · 28 May 2024·news roundup· 17:57–22:4710:30Myth 2 — People only care about payAl Elliott: So when I was putting this episode together, I was just Googling, like, what do people not really believe about workplace culture? So these are less about lies, more about myths. But to stay on brand with TruEP 50 · 3 Aug 2023·other· 10:30–17:4630:48Pay transparency — the positives and the drawbacksLauren: I think equity is also something else this generation talks a lot about. And we've learned that, you know, the, we didn't grow up having salary transparency and, um, all of this is really new and sometimes very fEP 46 · 5 Jul 2023·panel interview· 30:48–37:37
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