Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w...
by dpweb on Saturday July 18, 2015 @10:07AM
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True, you may want to adjust for say, years of experience. Although if that was transparent.
For instance, Dev level 2 makes 100k with 10k additional per every 3 years professional experience - you have differences amongst the staff but less room for people to complain about the variances.
The point is, salaries are not arbitrary, which is the basis of the anger when staff compares against their peers.
* not all people in the same position are equally qualified * reducing the difference to bonuses might mean a lot more overhead * salary might cover for things other than just competence, i.e. Alice and Bob are equally qualified, but you hire Alice out of college while Bob already had a well paying job
I wish there was enforce transparency about salaries but I'm not sure all of them can be just leveled to position+bonus.
Joel Spolsky had an interesting approach to this, a more complex formula but still public and consistent for all employees:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000038.html