HOW MUCH DO YOU GET PAID? Joan had been working as a reporter for a large television network for seven years. She was an experienced and hardworking reporter who had won many awards over the years for her outstanding work. The work was exciting and challenging, and at \($75\),000 a year plus benefits she felt well paid and satisfied.  

Then she found out that two recent graduates from one of the best schools of journalism in the United States had just been hired by her network at a starting salary of \($80\),000. Further, two other reporters 

who worked with Joan and had similar track records had just received job offers from American networks and were being offered \($150\),000 plus \($10\),000 for every award won for their reporting.