Nearly 40 percent of employees think their companies pay less-than-market-rate salaries, compared with 28 percent last year, according to an annual survey of workplace attitudes by staffing agency Randstad USA with Harris Interactive Inc. Yet a growing number of employers -- 50 percent this year compared with 42 percent in 2005 -- said they believed their salaries are competitive with the market rates, the survey found. The growing disconnect between workers and bosses occurred at the same time as fewer employees reported being satisfied with their workloads and hours.
See "More feeling underpaid", Barbara Rose, Chicago Tribune, July 16, 2006