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Who deserves more pay: Stewart or Colbert?

August 27, 2008 on 4:27 pm | In pop culture, salary | No Comments

Web users believe that Jon Stewart deserves a higher salary than his fellow Comedy Central host, Stephen Colbert.

That’s according to a vote set up as a way to promote a survey that is part of National Payroll Week (Sept. 1-5). Great attention-getter. I hope it’s working!

Speaking of attention-getters and salary, here’s another one: “Job Hunters: Price Yourself Like a House.” This interesting article by Liz Ryan looks at real-estate tricks and applies them to the job-seekers’ task of figuring out what salary to request.

She makes a good point: If you do the research and know your “market value,” you should have confidence in asking for it — even if you have to bring up the subject after your second interview (or some other appropriate point).