For most positions, salaries rise as a company's work force increases in size — especially among those working in highly technical jobs, such as operations and managing technology. To find out what people are being paid now, Inc. teamed up with PayScale, a Seattle-based provider of salary information and operator of one of the largest databases on compensation at privately held companies.

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Outside the executive suites, on the other hand, salaries largely remain flat, even as head counts approach 1,000.