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HBR F R O M T H E H A R V A R D B U S I N E S S R E V I E W OnPoint A R T I C L E Tempted to tinker with Six Dangerous Myths salaries to cut costs or boost employee loyalty? About Pay by Jeffrey Pfeffer Don’t buy into these expensive fictions about compensation. New sections to guide you through the article: • The Idea in Brief • The Idea at Work • Exploring Further . . . P R O D U C T N U M B E R 6 7 7 3 T H E I D E A I N B R I E F Six Dangerous Myths About Pay S  Airlines’ employees are the Many companies view pay as a powerful most loyal and productive in the industry— strategic lever—in particular, they believe yet they earn less than other airlines’ staff. that cutting or freezing wages boosts profitabil- ity. But this is a myth. In fact, firms can fall How does Southwest keep them? It knows that victim to as many as six myths about compen- compensation is not the key to employee or cor- sation. All of them spell danger in the form of porate success. Rather, productivity and com-