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What? Why wouldn’t you expect that? This is so incredibly defeatist. What is your reasoning behind equal pay for equal skill not being better for everyone?
by ketzo 5y ago
What? Why wouldn’t you expect that?
This is so incredibly defeatist. What is your reasoning behind equal pay for equal skill not being better for everyone?
- lazide 5y agoEqual purely engineering skill no? There is more to bring an effective engineer than a coding metric
- ketzo 5y agoThe parent specifically said "I'm not (and don't ever expect to be) paid the same as other equally qualified engineers on my team." I understand your point, even if I think it's a little narrow, but the original comment seemed to apply that there was no point in even trying to achieve equal pay. That just totally baffles me.
- totony 5y agoEqual pay forces metric-based assessments which imo is detrimental. I think(?) that's what op what refering to. It's incredibly hard to evaluate how to pay 2 different people, allowing negotiation allows the free market to determine the price, which is the best way we have found as a society to allocate assets.
- tick_tock_tick 5y agoThere main point following some of there other comment is equally qualified != equally performant
- Cookingboy 5y agoBecause at the end of the day "equal skills" doesn't exist. You can't just measure a developer's overall skill with a single power level number like in some anime. Different people are good/bad at different things and two engineers at the same level/experience can contribute to the team in completely different ways. That's why compensation exists in bands, which is aimed to reflect that skill levels exist in bands (not all L4s are equal, etc).
- astrange 5y agoAlso some kinds of compensation are intended to keep you for the future, and some are for past efforts, and not all of that is about "skills".