Figuring out the money related tags

Question

We currently have the tags salary money payment pay benefits expenses and raise.

That's really too many tags, and many are being used interchangably. I initially intended "salary" to refer to issues specific to salaried payments, as opposed to hourly payments, but that just hasn't happened.

I think all "money I am paid for doing my job" questions should be bundled into one tag, IMO payment is best for that. All non-payment issues about giving an employee money, as in benefits, should be tagged benefits. Questions dealing with spending company money should be tagged expenses. Asking about increased pay (not benefits) should be raise I don't really see any useful, common distinction beyond that.

Better ideas? Is this okay? What should we do here?

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I killed money by retagging those questions manually, it's too vague to make a synonym. I synonymized pay and payment to salary for now, that seems to be the consensus. raise benefits and expenses are all fine by me, but they need tag wikis/excerpts to define their proper use.

Answer 1

Use salary to indicate questions related to "money I'm being paid." payment might be a "most correct" term but I disagree on using it because it is not the most straightforward to users unfamiliar with this site.

Probably 99% of users coming to this site will instinctively think to search or tag questions with salary vs payment, as well as what almost all people will search via google.

I also think raise is a valid tag as it pertains to another specific set of things people will be looking to try to do.

Leave benefits as that is also a specific and unique thing. Get rid of money, pay, and payment.

Answer 2

On this one, I'm thinking a basic strategy is to go with what's intuitive. Current usage says:

salary - 41 questions

money - 3 - 1 about salary, 2 about other types of money that isn't payment for work

pay - 6 - none overlap with salary, but look like they could be fused with salary

payment - 5 - does overlap with pay - also refers in usage to payment for work

benefits - 2 - neither of which relate to negotiation, or of compensation

expenses - 3 - seems mostly about transfer of money for conditions that are not classic salary or payment - like travel costs or other "expense account" type issues

raise - 3 - cases of increasing payment for work within an existing job.

Give the love of salary as a tag, I'd say eliminate money (fuse it into salary or expenses), pay (fuse into salary), payment (fuse into salary). Keep benefts - non-monetary compensation for work, expenses - money provided for incidental costs relating to or required by work, and raise - increases in salary within an existing job.

Answer 3

It seems salary should be the tag for salary/wages, and pay should be a synonym. While this may be less intuitive for questions about hourly pay, I think it's a good fit.

We should keep benefits to cover all non-monetary compensation to an employee.

It would be useful to keep expense around, covering questions about compy expenses or reimbursement by an employer for personally-paid expenses (such as parking or public transportation).

We should get rid of money. It's a bit broad, and could cover salary (covered by salary), expenses (covered by expenses), or investment/financing (off-topic). Similarly, payment strikes me as "a payment" more so than "payment for services of an employee", and I suggest we get rid of it (or at least synonymize it with salary).

Lastly, raise isn't really covered by salary, since it is also tied to promotions, performance, and changes in responsibility. However, I see no compelling reason why we can't broaden salary enough to include it other than potentially having a tag about negotiating (hiring, promotions, raises, etc).

Answer 4

I suggest synonymizing a few of these

Compensation => salary pay and raise payment expenses benefits

Lets eliminate and ban the Money tag it does not belong here.