While Nokia did make a concerted effort to offer competitive salaries for the past few years, for many years (especially when they were they dominated the global cell-phone market) they paid considerably less than industry standard. There was a bit of ego in the compensation policies, and I often felt an unstated code of "you're lucky you get to work for Nokia, if you want to get paid more go somewhere else...". The fact is however, it was true. I stayed there for the MANY other benefits (financial, professional and academic), and eventually my salary was above industry norm.