How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Stick Around?

Re:How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Sti... by Loughla on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:23PM (#23564647)

I agree in theory that it's super healthy to do, but the reality is that people have, what I would argue are, incorrect attitudes about who to blame.

I work in a field that posts salary publicly (higher education). It is public knowledge what we all make, with databases devoted to this.

When someone is hired at more than a current employee, instead of getting mad at the employer for their compensation plan that takes advantage of existing employees, people inevitably get upset at the new employee.

I don't know why it happens, but it has happened in 100% of the cases at my institution. Every single one.

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Re:How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Sti... by loopz on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:39PM (#23564853)

Over many years, the current leadership have set the culture. They decide who to keep and who to let go. People may nibble at the hand that feeds them, for necessary upwards feedback, but they generally refrain from outright biting it. So fresh bait straight from college is always easiest prey.

In essence, how people treat newcomers, especially vulnerable ones, speaks volumes about the values and culture already set in the organization. There are organizations and countries where people can expect nothing good from leadership.

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Re:How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Sti... by Pfhreak on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:29PM (#23564735)

It's a learned behavior. It benefits employers to have employees squabbling with each other over pay rather than uniting and saying, "We'd like to talk with you, together, about pay". For some reason, the US in particular has a hard time with this.

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