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A company generally only has one CEO. There are hundreds, in some cases thousands, of employees with the same job function and salary grade at MS. The problem
by vonmoltke 6y ago
A company generally only has one CEO. There are hundreds, in some cases thousands, of employees with the same job function and salary grade at MS. The problem comes when those people start comparing their salaries to each other, not to other companies.
- Master_Odin 6y agoAnd then they can have frank discussions with their employers on why the diversity of salaries for similar levels of work.
- filoleg 6y ago> And then they can have frank discussions with their employers on why the diversity of salaries for similar levels of work. I mean, that's pretty much the whole issue as the company sees it, a frank discussion about a company like that only hurts the company. Because there isn't really a good way to rephrase "well, the gap here between you and Jim here is not because you produce less value or deserve getting paid less, but because we can just get away with paying you less". And no, I am not dismissing that some engineers produce more value than others and hence they get paid more. This happens quite often. However, in a lot of cases, that's not the reason for why some are getting paid less. And those who produce little value and get paid less are typically very aware of that fact, so they don't tend to raise fuss over the compensation.
- r00fus 6y agoI see this as a way to identify bad management and corruption actually. So a C-class employee has an A-level salary? Either that person is a master negotiator or has dirt.