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This rigged need to prove the same work is being paid the same always rings pretty hollow for me. In my first corporate job I was the most technical employee b
by carlmcqueen 9y ago
This rigged need to prove the same work is being paid the same always rings pretty hollow for me.
In my first corporate job I was the most technical employee by far, I did the work of far senior roles because my managers were wise to use a lot of my technical skill to get complex work done all the while having HR tell me I didn't have enough years and experience to have the higher paying job title.
Just because someone has the job title they have and the pay to go with it often has nothing to do with the work they do.
In both directions.
- coldtea 9y ago>This rigged need to prove the same work is being paid the same always rings pretty hollow for me. That's not about "the same work being paid the same" in general. Individual businesses can pay more or less for the same tasks, even the same business can pay people differently for the same task. Senior employees might be paid more while junior employees do all the real work, etc. Those things are true. But this article is not about that, it is about whether on average women and men are paid the same for the same jobs.
- micahbright 9y ago>But this article is not about that It seems like the article is actually precisely about that. If the authors didn't take these factors into account, their findings would be useless.
- maxerickson 9y agoIn your anecdote you were underpaid because you lacked leverage. What if you had been underpaid because your name was Carl?