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Open salaries will bring down the salary of anyone willing to negotiate.
by canadian123456 9y ago
Open salaries will bring down the salary of anyone willing to negotiate.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoHow so?
- manyhands 9y agoEmployees who negotiate higher salaries are subsidized by their meek coworkers.
- chrisbennet 9y agoI suppose that could be true but I kinda doubt that in the case where all the workers were meek, that the company would altruistically pay everyone a bit more.
- canadian123456 9y agoThey can afford to pay those who negotiate closer to their true value (often still significantly less) is because they pay the vast majority of people less. The only way transparent salaries help the majority instead of being used as a tool for businesses to just say, "We only pay 100k/yr, that's what everyone makes" is if there is some body enforcing fair pay.
- accountyaccount 9y agoA manager could then point to the salary of someone in the same position and say "Jane gets paid $X in the same position, it would be unfair to give you a raise and not her" I don't work somewhere with transparent salaries and I already get that excuse — I've more than once heard "you're kind of already at the top of our range for X position" and "if we pay you anymore you'll be making more than me!"
- maxxxxx 9y agoThere is a very good chance the manager lied to you.
- accountyaccount 9y agostory of my life
- PhasmaFelis 9y ago> I don't work somewhere with transparent salaries and I already get that excuse It sounds like managers will be doing that either way. With open salaries they at least wouldn't be able to lie about it.