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> If you’re worried that your current staff will find out they’re underpaid, stop underpaying them > There’s no excuse for not publishing a salary or salary ra
by gkop 6y ago
> If you’re worried that your current staff will find out they’re underpaid, stop underpaying them
> There’s no excuse for not publishing a salary or salary range
There is nuance around what is competitive comp for different departments (eg. engineering vs customer support), and how current employees in the lower paid departments will perceive the difference in comp across departments. I am all for publishing salary ranges, but it doesn’t come for free, you will wind up with more ill feelings among team members in lower paid departments, even if you pay everyone market compensation. It’s probably still worth publishing salary ranges though, for all the reasons cited in the article, and that it saves everyone time.
- avolcano 6y agoDo you think that, if you don't publish those salary bands, the employees in those different departments will somehow _not know_ that the other departments get paid more? Because, trust me, as someone who's worked at multiple B2C companies with large customer service departments, everyone absolutely knows, which is why us in the engineering department were always happy to buy the rounds at cross-company happy hours.
- gkop 6y agoYea, on the margin, they will be less likely to know the exact magnitude of the difference and (probably more importantly) less likely to be reminded (IE every time leadership asks “Refer your friends!” and they click the engineering job postings, they will be reminded when they see the salary range).
- jader201 6y agoTransparency coming in would solve this. If departments know what they get paid — and what other departments get paid — before accepting a job, then they either accept that there are differences for a reason, or reject the offer due to the reasons. If the reasons are fair/reasonable, then there’s nothing to worry about. If they’re not and can’t hire anyone, they’ll figure that out and adjust the salaries for those departments.