You've been shortlisted for that coveted job, and you're on cloud nine. But you have one critical stage to cross: working out your pay pack...

If major IT players announced hikes in the range of 12-20%, the small and medium enterprises went up to offer 25% increments.

Now, it is not just CEOs, severance packages are also being designed for the top four to five positions in a company.

Saddled with the fringe benefit tax (FBT), cos have tweaked pay packages to restrict their tax outgo.

The following quotes are picked randomly from everyday conversations between employees of a particular organisation.