Re:Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer
by kazagistar on Sunday December 22, 2013 @04:10PM
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Dunno, if person A goes to gets a PHD in distributed systems and spends 40 hours a week furthering their knowledge of computing topics, while person B spends 6 years after university uninstalling viruses from windows computers, and spends their time after work watching cartoons, it seems very plausible there would be a significant difference in their worth to a company due to a significant difference in skills, even if they are both hired on as "developers".
Oooh, or what if there's a dragon[1], and I need to be paid extra money so I can spend it on dragon-slaying gear? If you really deserve extra money, the conversation goes like this:
"Why do you make more than me?" "Because my job is harder."
Fun fact: you're not that special. Wage secrecy is good for skilled negotiators and bad for everyone else; being a skilled negotiator does not, however, ethically or morally entitle you to make more than other people. It just allows you to get away with it, and it's trivially unfair.
[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2207833/