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This seems like it would leave a company with two options: 1. Losing employees who are better than others (i.e. deserve and want a larger salary) at the same j
by tetrep 11y ago
This seems like it would leave a company with two options:
1. Losing employees who are better than others (i.e. deserve and want a larger salary) at the same job
2. Create a new role for every minute difference in skill level to allow better employees to earn more than their peers.
Neither of those seems to be too terribly good. I think making all salaries public-by-default and using that as a basis for negotiation would be far better for equal pay as everyone would know what they were capable of earning by looking at what their peers are payed.
IMO banning salary negotiations is just a move to save money; we can't pay you more because we don't discriminate against women.
- mrdrozdov 11y agoI'm not too sure. In my experience, salary negotiations will earn you a few percentage points at most. It does make it easier for a potential employee to decide between two companies (this is what the other company offered, can you match it?), but it's a relatively small number compared to difference in promotion level and team. If we're talking about software engineering, these positions tend to have 5 or so levels plus different teams. Salary is tied to team and level. I don't think what Ellen is doing will directly make a huge impact on the gender gap because the problem in software engineering is more about underrepresentation of women. Perhaps what it will do is prevent a problem where all or most of the men in the same position were being just a wee bit more than the women at Reddit, which seems like a believable situation.