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She has that freedom already and I've never denied her a day off - for music festivals she wants to go away for usually. She's a PA/Office Assistant for my small 3 person business just to clarify, though I'm teaching her different aspects of my job as we go along and she's taking them over...

She does need to improve her negotiation skills so I will ask her what she is worth. If she doesn't say as much as I think I should pay her, I'll still pay it to her. That way she is learning too :) Thanks all for your input - really helpful

Good idea Simon. Maybe I will ask her. She needs to improve her negotiation skills in this business anyway so it will help her ;)

Oh I know you weren't insinuating that! Sounds like your cousin worked for the sort of people I've been talking about. More to the point I want to make sure she hangs around because I consider her above average and she has a lot of potential.

Yes she does take calls from people looking for her job and I know she considers herself lucky to work with me but that doesn't give me the right to take advantage of her. I was used like that when I first broke into the business and it's not something I want to pass on. I want to reward her and...

You're right. We work in the music industry - a very desirable field for young people. Some people I know do take advantage of the willingness of others to work for peanuts or free. I'm not one of them. We don't even take work experience kids because I don't feel they'd learn anything getting...

Thanks guys. I take care of her mobile phone bill and bought her an iPhone already. She has no qualifications. She has great flexibility due to the nature of the business we work in. During a quiet period last year she went home an hour early every day (on my insistance) and now it's really busy...

I have an office assistant who is proving quite invaluable to me. She's been with me for coming up on on 2 years now and whilst I've rewarded her with a trip overseas to a conference (she took holidays there afterwards), and a payrise 12 months ago, I really don't know what is a good salary to...