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As Specialized Skills Gain Top Pay, Salary Gap Widens

July 25, 2015 /

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The same scene plays out in Robert DeMeola’s Midtown Manhattan office every few weeks now — not that it ever gets any easier. In walks a director or senior accountant, job offer in hand, threatening to leave for a hedge fund or big bank unless Mr. DeMeola can deliver a raise of 30 percent, sometimes more.

"It used to be once a quarter. Now it’s every month," said Mr. DeMeola, chief operating officer of CohnReznick, a national accounting, tax and advisory firm headquartered in New York. "They expect you to negotiate."

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ

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