In this part of the study, you are asked to rate how satisfied you would be with your salary, given the salaries of others doing the same work. There may be one, two, three, or as many as seven others doing the same job. Assume that the others doing the same work are equally experienced, qualified, and productive as you are. Your task is to rate how satisfied you would be with your salary, given the salary or salaries paid to those others.
On each trial, you will see the salary that you are paid, and the salaries of others who are doing the same work. In each case, your salary is labeled Your Salary, and the salary or salaries of other(s) are labeled as Others.
For example, imagine that one other person doing the same work is paid $46,000, and you are paid $40,000. How would you feel? In another case, imagine that you are paid $52,000 per year and there are two others who are paid $40,000 and $70,000. How happy would you be in that case? You should consider each trial below as a separate situation, and imagine how you would feel in each case.
Please scroll down and read over the trials to get an overall picture of the different situations, before you start. You can think of each trial as a scenario describing a different company and a different salary you might receive there. When judging your salary satisfaction in each scenario, we want you to think of all the other scenarios. That is, your ratings should be higher if you think you would be happier with your salary in that company than you would be in the other companies of this study.
Your task is to rate how satisfied or dissatisfied, how happy or unhappy, you would be with your salary in each scenario, compared to the other scenarios, now that you know what other people are getting who are doing the same work in each case. Please make your ratings on the 7 point scale using buttons on the 7 point scale to indicate how satisfied or dissatisfied you would feel about your salary from:
Not at all Happy to Extremely Happy.