Is this considered fair pay?

[sugarpie]

We get a cost of living raise every year along with a memo about not discussing rate of pay with co-workers, but of course we talk about it and there seems to be no rhyme or reason to how people are payed.

 

[Grumpy's Gal]

any chance she "slipped" on purpose and she doesn't make more than you?

 

[luvtogo12]

any chance she "slipped" on purpose and she doesn't make more than you?

No, I don't think so as my boss confirmed that she did make more. He explained why, I thanked him and it has not been mentioned since.

 

[barkley]

i think it depends on the job re. the value of a ft vs a pt employee.

my former employer was looking at ways to curb costs at one point and before implementing any layoffs or position eliminations offered up the opportunity for ft staff to reduce their hours but retain full time benefits (so same med, vacations, sick, holiday time off)-your pay was reduced by the percentage of hours you took off but otherwise to no detriment. the requirement however, was that you had to get your ft duties done sucessfully within your reduced hours. there were a number of working moms who crunched the numbers and realized that between the tax savings and not having to pay for after school daycare they could actualy end up financialy ahead by taking advantage of the offering.

upshot-productivity went up for those employees and error rates went down. the time they spent on the job they were very focused on getting their job done and had less time for the social aspects of work (which was easy to do when you realy new your job duties could get done in 6 vs the 8 hours you were assigned per day).

in that case the pt'rs were a much more valuable work force for the employer.

 

[DisInsider]

An employee's salary is supposed to be strictly confidential. The fact that you found out what a co-worker is paid is irrelevent. I agree that it is no fun knowing that a co-worker with the same status as you makes more money, but the reality is that in most business, this is a common thing. It is also a big reason why salaries are confidential.

Your job today is probably worth more than it was when you started 6 years ago. The hard truth is that in many cases, companies pay more to external hires than they would for internal promotions. This especially applies to management.

It can also be hard to be the person making more money when another employee finds out. I was an assistant manager at the Disney Store making $37K per year. Even management salaries were confidential. The other assistant at our store "accidentally" opened my paycheck and saw that I made $10K more than her. When she shared this with the store manager, it was revealed that my salary was $5K more that HERS!. Of course I never knew any of this. But those women hated me for making more money than them.

I had no idea that the Disney Store Manager only made $32K a year. Both of these women had been with the company for years. They worked their way up from CM to management. That is a very slow and a very low paying way to move up the ranks. I was hired as an assistant. Anyway, within a few months, the store manager quit, and I was promoted, and bumped up to a salary of $44K. Of course the assistant quit and even followed the store manager to her new company.

The moral of this story is simple. The best way to improve your salary and earning potential is put your experience to work for you. Find a similar position with another company. Chances are they will pay you more than the 1.5 year person who is now making more than you. Six years at one job is a very long time in today's world. It is also a very good bargaining chip when the time comes to find a new job.

That is how I worked my way from my first management job that paid $8 per hour to an annual salary of over $50K in less than 5 years. Anybody can do it if they have the will to succeed elsewhere. The days of the 10 and 20 year jobs with one company are long gone. Today's reality is more like 3 to 5 years and then you move on.

Don't waste your time trying to get more money from your current employer. You are always going to wonder what the next new person is getting paid.

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

The starting salary for your position has probably risen at a faster rate than your salary has.

Bingo!

 

[Cindy B]

My DH's company has salary bands. These salary bands are ranges where the individuals pay scale fits. Basically his company takes the nationwide averages at all different companies for the positions (customer service, IT, nurses, managerial basically every position except executive decisions) and made a salary band.

The salary band is the low/high for each position at other companies. In this way, DH's company can tailor the salary to nationwide averages.

The system is unfair in a few ways. These salaries do not take into account education of the employee. Companies will set the salary--and employees are either over or under employed with this salary system.

If other national companies are lowering and freezing salaries, DH's company will do the same. If the salary for positions freeze, DH's salary freezes. He was on a pay freeze for over 2 years.

As for my job, the school system is set up with type of degree, years experience and all employees are the same.