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[Fighter35]

On an airline I was using for testing a while back I decided to try lowering the employees wage to $7. After I got bored of the angry faces I decided to raise their pay, buy still they were angry. Do they stay angry, or do they eventually become happy again?

[Denver.]

They might become happy, I suggest that once you are financially stable, you give everyone a salary of 80$. 

 

Yes and this also become my 800th Post. Yahoo! 

[AlmeraN15]

From what I've seen, they'll 'hate' you immediately when the pay's cut, and they'll take until the next day to 'get over it' when they get a raise back up to the average pay.

[Tycondero]

Is it advisable to even cut or raise salaries? I actually never really bother with it and still do perfectly fine. I know wages are a large cost factor, but what are the consequences of having angry or happy employees in this game?

[Pineair]

Training costs go up due to number of new staff you have to recruit to replace those who leave.

[konj1]

Training costs go up due to number of new staff you have to recruit to replace those who leave.

Yes, that's a thing as well and people who recommend $7 wages ignore it completely.

 

I don't understand that cutting wages scheme, I never did it and I earned just fine, when my company is upstart I leave default wages, when it gets off I raise them. If you need to cut to $7 it you're doing other things wrong as well and the cut won't help you.

Also, as far as I'm concerned, this game is too easy anyway, why wouldn't I leave normal wages as and additional challenge.

[hedgeaf]

On S2 it makes a huge difference given the importance of every dollar and the vastly slower growth rate. I've never done it before but tried it and reduced my wages cost by nearly 80% overall, training costs barely changed, an increase but at the same rate I had previously seen increases as I added aircraft.

 

Attrition rises to 4-6%, but that is peanuts. The big salary cost due to numbers of people (70%) is cabin crew circa $35. Recruiting 6% more per year is irrelevant when you are saving 80% of the salary, especially as you'd see a couple of % anyway.