Sixty-five percent of workers say they are interviewing for positions with salary levels that are returning to prerecession levels while 26 percent of workers say salary levels are still much lower than before the recession, and 9 percent of workers say salary levels are actually higher from the start of the recession, according to the Workplace Web Poll by recruiting firm FPC.
Another 38 percent of respondents say salary levels appear to be recovering somewhat.
Other benefits that respondents report being offered are a signing bonus, stock options or vacation time at 9 percent; relocation at 16 percent; and more than one of these benefits at 23 percent. Fifty-two percent of respondents have not been offered any of these benefits.
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Of the respondents who have received job offers, 10 percent say they received counteroffers from their current employers and stayed while 14 percent say they received counteroffers but still left. Twenty percent of respondents say they did not receive counteroffers, despite their hopes that they would come through, and 56 percent of respondent say they did not receive counteroffers but didn't intend to stay regardless.
"Reports from job seekers of recovering salary levels is consistent with the overall trend FPC offices are seeing from our clients," says Ron Herzog, CEO and president of FPC. "Along with the increasing number of positions our clients are asking us to help them fill, the growth in salary levels leads us to maintain a cautious optimism that the employment market is truly improving for management professionals more generally."
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