> 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

> 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.