ABSTRACT
What other people are paid is usually an emotive subject. This is probably because, apart from the exceptionally lucky, we are all participants in the salaried society and possess a ‘personal reward benchmark’ against which other people’s income can be compared. Using this benchmark, we become potential experts in making salary comparisons and classifying them in terms of ‘fair’, ‘unfair’, ‘exorbitant’, ‘pitifully inadequate’ and so on.
