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To some degree yes, but mostly no. I have 25+ years experience, and I make as much as my coworkers who have ~5 years experience. There are engineers younger t
by pfarnsworth 9y ago
To some degree yes, but mostly no.
I have 25+ years experience, and I make as much as my coworkers who have ~5 years experience. There are engineers younger than me that make more than I do. I don't get a free pass or more money because I'm older with more experience.
There's a great deal of salary compression once you hit about 10 years experience. Someone with 20 years of experience isn't twice as good as someone with 10 years experience. It in fact might be a hindrance if you haven't updated your skills.
So, sometimes years of experience is taken into account, but I would say mostly not really, just broad strokes at best.
- Nuzzerino 9y agoYou're assuming that salary is determined by how "good" somebody is at the job itself. Sorry to be the one to tell you that is but a small part of it. At the end of the day, the company really doesn't know how good you actually are. Your manager may have a decent understanding of the skill level of the members of their team. But your manager doesn't have much of a say over your salary. It's 2017, and we are still using an archaic architecture for the worker-business relationship. As long as the workers continue to believe that they are getting a great deal, then this will continue.