Perhaps times were different a couple years ago when you were hired. If the company is not quite as strong right now (or other reasons), they may be offering le

Perhaps times were different a couple years ago when you were hired. If the company is not quite as strong right now (or other reasons), they may be offering less to new employees. Generally, companies try not to reduce existing employees' pay... but do change the base starting pay of new employees. And companies usually have a bit of a salary range. $1.00 (an hour I presume) is only slightly more than $2k/yr. Perhaps these new employees did not interview quite as well... making them ever so slightly less appealing (while still being good enough to hire, obviously). There are many valid reasons why one person might be paid less than another person. There is not enough info here to point at "female" as the reason. Edit: That is not to say there is not an on going problem with women getting paid less. There is. But not every woman getting paid less than a man is getting paid less because she is a woman. It only takes a tiny variance in any of the other variables to make one person's salary different than another's. We can't blame sexism for every bad thing that happens to a woman.