Italians are dissatisfied with their wages. The research says so Salary Satisfaction Report conducted by Job Pricing on a sample of over a thousand workers in private companies. On a scale of 1 to 10, in fact, the workers assigned a grade of less than 4 (3,9) to their salary packages, considered not only insufficient, but also unfair.
The votes of the sample consulted (1056 workers consulted), in fact, are largely insufficient for all aspects related to pay. In the companies, according to the workers, there would be little meritocracy (3,8), little transparency (4,5) little equity both internal and external (4,9 and 4,7 respectively) and a poor match between performance and pay (3,6)
According to the research, therefore, Italians believe that they are not paid enough for what they do and that promotions or various awards of merit within companies most often follow unfathomable, unquantifiable and in any case difficult to understand criteria. Furthermore, the workers declare themselves against the company bargaining systems which, by guaranteeing equal pay for all, lower the perception of meritocracy.
These are all elements that combine to outline the picture of a dissatisfied and demotivated working class, in which the fixed salary remains for almost everyone (9,1 out of 10) the factor that makes a job more attractive, followed by other elements considered crucial such as interpersonal relationships in the workplace and the possibility of career development.
