How Big is Your Salary?

Instructions for Judging Size of Salaries

This is a study of judgments of the size of salaries. How "big" is your salary, compared to the salaries of others working at the same workplace.

On each trial, you will see a different workplace, the salary that you are paid, and the salaries of others who are doing the same work at this workplace. Your salary is labeled Your Salary, and the salary or salaries of other(s) are labeled as Others.

Please scroll down and read over all the trials to get an overall picture of all of the different workplaces and salaries, before you start. You can think of each trial as a scenario describing a different company and a different salary you receive there. When judging how big your salary is, we want you to think only of the other salaries in the SAME workplace. Judge how big is your salary relative to the salaries in the SAME workplace. That is, how big is Your Salary relative to the Others' Salaries on the Same Trial?

Your task is to rate how big or small each salary is on the 7 point scale, by clicking one of the buttons on the 7 point scale to indicate how small or big you judge your salary to be, relative to others on the same trial:
Very small salary to Very big salary.

Warmup Trials

Remember: Judge the size of Your Salary compared only to the salaries of others on the SAME trial.

1.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $40,000; $41,000; $42,000; $43,000; $44,000; $45,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

2.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $40,000; $47,000; $48,000; $49,000; $50,000; $51,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

3.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $40,000
Very Small Very Big

4.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $52,000
Very Small Very Big

5.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $40,000; $41,000; $42,000; $43,000; $44,000; $45,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

6.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $20,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

7.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $40,000
Very Small Very Big

8.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $48,000
Very Small Very Big

9.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $40,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

10.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $20,000; $72,000
Very Small Very Big

11.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $40,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

12.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $44,000
Very Small Very Big

13.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $48,000
Very Small Very Big

14.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $40,000
Very Small Very Big

15.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $20,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

16.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $40,000; $49,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

17.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $40,000; $47,000; $48,000; $49,000; $50,000; $51,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

18.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $40,000; $49,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

19.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $48,000
Very Small Very Big

20.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $40,000; $72,000
Very Small Very Big

21.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $40,000; $41,000; $42,000; $43,000; $44,000; $45,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

22.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $44,000
Very Small Very Big

23.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $20,000; $72,000
Very Small Very Big

24.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $20,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

25.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $20,000; $72,000
Very Small Very Big

26.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $40,000; $43,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

27.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $40,000; $49,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

28.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $44,000
Very Small Very Big

29.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $40,000; $72,000
Very Small Very Big

30.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $40,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

31.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $52,000
Very Small Very Big

32.
Your Salary = $46,000
Others = $40,000; $72,000
Very Small Very Big

33.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $40,000; $47,000; $48,000; $49,000; $50,000; $51,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

34.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $52,000
Very Small Very Big

35.
Your Salary = $42,000
Others = $40,000; $43,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

36.
Your Salary = $50,000
Others = $40,000; $43,000; $52,000
Very Small Very Big

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 Judging Size of Salaries

Warmup Trials

Thank You!