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(20 person company here) We've been giving raises above what we normally would do simply because it's not fair to have a developer who's 1 week on the job, same
by cj 5y ago
(20 person company here) We've been giving raises above what we normally would do simply because it's not fair to have a developer who's 1 week on the job, same skillset, making $15-20k more than someone who's been working with us for 2 years.
When giving the raises, I've been saying "This raise is to keep our pay competitive with the market, and will not affect your regular annual review" (we also give raises to people annually)
- mcguire 5y agoWhat's fairness got to do with it? I get that some employers, particularly in small businesses like you describe, might be committed to such fairness, but most employers in my experience have been perfectly content and even fight back (as in, "well, if you had a competing offer...") if the employees start comparing numbers.
- abeyer 5y agoAnd the businesses that thought that way were able to maintain the status quo by forbidding or at least strongly discouraging employees sharing compensation info. That's no longer legal in the US, and people are still playing catch up, but I think this is on its way out. As soon as it's easy for employees to _know_ that they've gotten the short stick they aren't going to stay quiet about it.
- cj 5y ago> What's fairness got to do with it? Fairness itself has nothing to do with it. It has everything to do with avoiding employees getting mad when they here the new guy makes significantly more, which leads to conflict, which leads to unhappy employees, which leads to poor productivity. Perhaps "fairness" is the wrong thing to call it. More like "do things to retain good employees". Usually "being fair" falls into the "do things to retain good employees" category.