Scenario:You were hired 3 weeks ago as Director of Compensation for a thriving mid-sized high

Scenario:

You were hired 3 weeks ago as Director of Compensation for a thriving mid-sized high

technology manufacturing company. The Vice President of HR, your boss, approaches you in your office and asks if you have a few minutes to talk about something. Of course you say "yes" and enter her bright and spacious corner office with floor to ceiling windows and lots of tropical plants. After you admire her art work and aquarium, you ask her whats on her mind. The VP tells you that she is concerned with what she has observed in the programming area. The staff is arriving to work late and leaving early; sick leave use is up; and turnover is increasing. She asks you to figure out what it would cost to raise all the programming staff salaries by 10%. She thinks that a raise will stop people from leaving.