Accepting a Salary Job Offer

Instructions for Accepting Job Offers: Part C

In this part of the study, you are asked to rate how likely you would accept a job offer at a salary offer, given the salaries of others doing the same work. Assume that the others doing the same work are equally experienced, qualified, and productive as you are.

On each trial, you will see the salary that you are offered, and the salaries of others who work at the same company. In each case, the salary they offer you is labeled Your Salary and the salary or salaries of other(s) who already work there are labeled as Others.

For example, imagine that one other person doing the same work is paid $46,000, and you are offered $40,000. How likely would you be to take that job? In another case, imagine that you are offered $52,000 per year and there are two others who are paid $40,000 and $70,000.

When judging your likelihood of accepting an offer in each scenario, we only want you to think of the information for that specific scenario. Judge how likely you would be to accept the offer in the context of the others' salaries in that scenario; do not consider the other scenarios or options from outside the experiment. Please rate how likely you would be to accept each job offer taken in isolation of all other trials. That is, judge each case on its own, without thinking of the other trials in this study or other considerations.

You should assume that all other aspects of the companies are the same; that is, assume that they have equal resources, that raises will be the same at any of the companies, and that the gaps in salaries between people who work there will remain the same. In other words, please do not imagine that things will change over time or imagine other differences among the companies aside from what is given in each scenario.

Your task is to rate how likely you would be to accept each job offer, now that you know what other people are getting who are doing the same work at the company. Please make your ratings by clicking along the 7 point scale to indicate how likely you would be to accept each job offer, considering only the information given on that trial:
Very Unlikely to Accept the Job Offer . . . to . . .Very Likely to Accept the Job Offer

Warmup Trials Accepting Job Offers

1.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $40,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

2.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $40,000; $43,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

3.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $44,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

4.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

5.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $20,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

6.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $48,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

7.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $20,000; $72,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

8.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $40,000; $49,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

9.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $40,000; $47,000; $48,000; $49,000; $50,000; $51,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

10.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $40,000; $41,000; $42,000; $43,000; $44,000; $45,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

11.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $40,000; $47,000; $48,000; $49,000; $50,000; $51,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

12.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $44,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

13.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $20,000; $72,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

14.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $40,000; $43,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

15.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $40,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

16.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $20,000; $72,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

17.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $40,000; $49,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

18.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

19.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

20.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $48,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

21.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $40,000; $43,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

22.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $20,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

23.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $40,000; $72,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

24.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $44,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

25.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $20,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

26.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $48,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

27.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $40,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

28.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $40,000; $72,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

29.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $40,000; $49,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

30.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $40,000; $47,000; $48,000; $49,000; $50,000; $51,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

31.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $40,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

32.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $40,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

33.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $40,000; $41,000; $42,000; $43,000; $44,000; $45,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

34.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $40,000; $41,000; $42,000; $43,000; $44,000; $45,000; $52,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

35.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $40,000; $72,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

36.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $40,000
Very Unlikely Very Likely

37. What is your age? years.
38. Gender: Are you Male or Female?

Female
Male

39. What is the highest level of education you have completed?

40. Nationality (country of birth):

CSUF students: To receive credit in your SONA account, please complete the following items. The following will be used only for the purposes of giving you credit toward the research requirement assignment.

41. LAST NAME:

42. FIRST NAME:

43. CWID (CSUF ID):

44. EMAIL (CSUF email):

45. Comments:

Please check your answers. When you are done, push the button below.

Instructions for Accepting Job Offers: Part C

Warmup Trials Accepting Job Offers

Thank You!