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Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by munk-a on Monday March 04, 2019 @01:45PM (#19303990)
I think this only really comes up when pay disparity is as extreme as it is now, when some people at a company (outside of C-level) are making 300k and others are making 32k there is a good reason to be aggressive about fixing pay disparity.
Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by renholder on Monday March 04, 2019 @03:59PM (#19305398)
>...when some people at a company (outside of C-level) are making 300k and others are making 32k there is a good reason to be aggressive about fixing pay disparity.

You're completely throwing context out of the window, though, and that's a dangerous precedent. Is the person making 300k in sales? Is the person making 32k merely the frontline helpdesk?

To try to "even it out, to decrease the dispairity, and - thus - the inequality" would mean the sales person and the helpdesk person making around 150k but only one of them is performing highly skilled, desired, sought-after work and the other is a generalist whom can easily be replaced. You intentionally devalue the sales person to add unwarranted value to the frontline helpdesk person.

So, your sales person leaves and your helpdesk person stays with your company until they either die or company runs under or what-have-you. They could improve themselves to move up the ranks but where's the onus for that, if they're already making gold bars, without having had to have done anything to actually earn that value?

The entire premise is wrought with problems because it doesn't address the principal fact that the desparities probably exist for a reason...

Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by EpicEng on Monday March 04, 2019 @02:22PM (#19304363)
>when some people at a company (outside of C-level) are making 300k and others are making 32k there is a good reason to be aggressive about fixing pay disparity

Why? That's far too simplistic. Are you comparing e.g. a senior engineer to a part time janitor? Why should their pay be closer?

Look at the position and demand for it. Comparing salary without context is a waste of time (unless you truly believe market forces shouldn't be relevant, but I think you'll have a hard time convincing people in the US to join your side.)

Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by alasdair_ on Monday March 04, 2019 @02:18PM (#19304322)
I don’t have a problem with a spinal surgeon making over 10X what her receptionist makes.