
It may come as a surprise to many executives, but workers aren't leaving their jobs just because they are not happy with their pay, according to the experts.
Unless the gap between what an individual is making and the market valuation of their role is particularly wide, a higher salary might be the perk that sweetens the deal, but, in all likelihood, <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2152143,00.asp?kc=EWKNLNAV070207STR3">salary issues alone won't instigate a job change.</A>
In an analysis of 19,700 post-exit surveys and 3,179 comments for PricewaterhouseCoopers' Saratoga Institute, released June 1, researchers found that the reasons employees left their previous job were strikingly different from what most executives believed them to be.