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> A more valuable employee is going to tend to have better wages. I disagree. Wages are a proxy for your value, but not a very accurate one. Among my circle of
by 1024core 9y ago
> A more valuable employee is going to tend to have better wages.
I disagree. Wages are a proxy for your value, but not a very accurate one. Among my circle of friends, I've seen 2 of them get significantly different offers for doing very similar jobs. One can negotiate very well; the other is a total nerd. Both are comparable in ability. The negotiator makes nearly 2x as much as the other guy.
There is a lot more to compensation than just your "value to the company".
- jessaustin 9y agoOne expects that if this thread hangs around long enough, we'll eventually see claims that negotiating well against the firm is actually of some sort of value to the firm.
- conanbatt 9y agoI'd answer: who are you to measure the value of your friends? And also, if you have a hotdog stand, you cant pay Elon Musk a lot more than you would pay any highschool kid. You say they have similar jobs, I'll say they aren't , one way or another. If they truly are similar jobs, then one of your friends is getting above his value, or the other below, with the consequences that come from that situation. Value is truly a complicated thing to measure, and it has many axis where it can easily go "out of whack".