The employees in these groupings follow similar career paths and climb the same ladder in regards to salary. The recruitment process and performance awards are two other methods that Simmons and Bugarin mentioned that attracts employees to private sector job opportunities. With the money to spend, companies can offer their employees what some would consider being bonuses. Others would say that it's a really nice way to thank you for a job well done. In either case these bonuses can take on many forms.
Some companies offer their employees attractive stock options.
Other regard their employees with nice retention bonuses. This can translate into an extra 15 to 30 percent of an employee's salary that is dispersed over a three-year period. In the area of performance bonuses and similar rewards of this nature, the state can't compete. Instead of trying to the state can reward its hard workers in other equally satisfying ways. Agencies can also give workers a greater choice in choosing work assignments.