It's not surprising that the higher a person's salary, the greater the satisfaction. Money isn't everything. Stock options, the preferred currency of the dot-com economy, were near the bottom of the list, with only 24 percent of respondents receiving them. But money and stock aren't the only perks our readers received. Some respondents were given more creative rewards, including additional vacation time, a company car and health club memberships.
Women still earn less.
Although our results showed a 15 percent disparity between what men and women earned, the gap in the training field isn't as wide as it is in some industries. In its 2000 salary survey, Working Woman magazine found the wage gap even larger for women working in accounting, architecture, construction, finance, health care management, publishing and human resources. And in top advertising and library positions, women reported out-earning their male colleagues by 8 to 14 percent. Experience doesn't always pay. Brinkerhoff says it's quite possible.