Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet

Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by zaphar on Saturday July 18, 2015 @11:12AM (#9907717)

Value is a subjective thing. What a company values is not necessarily the same thing as what an employee values. So that 250K salary may be due to something the company values at 250k for whatever reason the company has.

This does not of course mean that the coworkers of that 250k salary think the work is worth 250k. That disconnect which can be difficult to fix will often cause bad feelings and poison the atmosphere.

The correct solution of course is for the company to effectively communicate what is sees as valuable so that employees can work toward creating that value and measure correctly. This is harder than it sounds though.

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Re:Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality w... by wyclif on Saturday July 18, 2015 @01:58PM (#9908285)

This is an excellent observation and a corrective to the often-seen and simplistic "x employee is more valuable than y employee." The merits a company places on a project or the valorization of said project is also in play.

What's hard: even when Project A is effectively communicated as the most important thing BigCo does, Project B is still essential to BigCo's functioning and BigCo cannot exist without it, so how to counteract Project B employees feeling either devalued or jealous of Project A?

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