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Salary negotiations: helping you to up your kick

1. Be persuasive: It's hard to force your boss to increase your compensation, and trying to do so can potentially damage your working relationship.

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We all deserve more. So, don't get even, up your kick instead.

Here we hope you'll find a welcome release from the rigours of everyday life and the pursuit for the road to the good life. Well, coupled with our – hopefully interesting features – we hope to give you a start in the right direction by guiding you to upyourkick.com a salary comparison site with a difference. upyourkick.com is the first site that allows users to compare their salary against actual salaries of others in the same or similar role to theirs in a completely anonymous way. So, using this new found information they will be able to discern whether they are being paid the going right, the correct salary and then make the informed decision as to whether they need to up their kick or not. This is a free service so please visit www.upyourkick.com and find out for yourself. Who knows, maybe you'll up your kick.

www.upyourkick.com top 5 salaries of registered users

1. UK, London, F, 45, Financial Services, Broker, 20 year(s) £300,000
2. UK, London, M, 39, Recruitment, CEO, 19 year(s) £200,000
3. UK, Glasgow, M, 42, Sales, Director, 20 year(s) £155,000
4. UK, Essex, M, 47, Administrator, CEO, 15 year(s) £150,000
5. UK, London, M, 26, Banking, Trader, 3 year(s) £150,000

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