On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Mark Honomichl <[email protected]>
wrote:

> For Dun & Bradstreet, we have something similar to your IT fellow (we call
> it “distinguished engineer”).  Traditionally, as you rise up through the
> organization and begin to take on more responsibilities, one of those is
> managing people.  For me, that’s what I want.   I have been extremely
> technical but I want to share, mentor, and grow others.  For some of the
> guys on my team, they could care less.  They are an awesome engineers
> (/sysadmins/geeks/whatever), but in a normal situation would plateau on the
> pay scale because the next level for them is management.  Distinguished
> engineer adds additional pay scales (for those with Army experience, kind
> of like Specialist vs. Corporal).  It comes with a little more juice as
> well, but more as a add-on than a goal.  The goal is to reward people for
> their performance.
>
> ---------------------------------
> Mark Honomichl
>

Dow Jones has (had?) the same idea; a technical leadership role that went
up in pay scale but did not require management activities. Not a bad idea
if you actually want to get and keep smart people.

Leam

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