Salary as the Main Factor When Choosing a Job

Employee hiring and retention are Suggested change: two of the most important tasks of the Human Resources departmenttwo of the most important tasks of the Human Resources department1two utmost important tasks of Human Resource department of modern enterprises. Organisations spend a great deal of money studying the Suggested change: reasons for attritionreasons for attrition2reasons of attrition. And many of them conclude that compensation is the biggest reason why an employee accepts a job offer. I too think that salary is the most important motivating factor for one to accept an offer. Firstly, one needs to understand the motive why anyone looks for employment. It is obvious that one does a job to earn money, to support his family and so that he can lead a good life. With time, everyone's need changes and Suggested change: on top of thison top of this3one top of this, inflation makes things increasingly unaffordable. An employee starts looking outside when he finds himself stretching to meet his family need. Suggested change: A second reason is thatA second reason is that4Second reason is that when an employee feels he is not paid enough he would start finding a new job. Infosys Technology's HR department's exit interview, when they try to find the reasons why an employee has left the job, data reveals that 80% of people leaving job has the salary as the first reason. This shows that compensation plays the biggest role in employee's Suggested change: decision to switch jobs or accept a new offerdecision to switch jobs or accept a new offer5decision of switching job or taking new offer. However, there are many other important reasons why one selects a job such as work-life balance, the opportunity to rise in the organisation's hierarchy, work culture etc. Study by Bangalore human resource organisation revealed that Suggested change: 50% of employees50% of employees650% employees provide non-salary as one of the reasons for taking a new offer. From my personal experience, I have seen many of my colleagues taking a new offer in search of other better opportunity or to switch career. Therefore, we can safely conclude that salary is not the only consideration while Suggested change: choosing a new jobchoosing a new job7choosing new job but it is the topmost reason why one takes a new job offer.