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Buyers: no added cash for overseeing mtgs.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 22-SEP-03 		Format: Online - approximately 907 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Though many corporations recently have modified their internal structures to align travel and meetings management, the executive atop the new structure--the travel buyer--today typically earns no more compensation than those travel executives who have nothing to do with meetings management, according to a recent Business Travel News survey.

According to the 2003 Travel Manager Salary & Attitude Survey of 573 travel buyers (BTN, Aug. 11), the compensation scale for executives whose responsibilities include meetings management and the scale for those who don't are almost exactly the same. About 30 percent of respondents in both categories make more than $90,000 in annual salary, benefits and incentives, and about 11 percent in both categories earn less than $40,00 annually:

The lack of dichotomy is critical for many travel executives, as many corporations have taken steps to converge...

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