I'd probably empathize with someone saying that the business wanted to have internal fairness with regards to salaries, because who doesn't like fairness. Fairness requires compensating you in proportion to the value you've provided and will provide in the future.
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If the business feels that your productivity was so outstanding that it needs to pay all the engineers more senior than you more to afford it, well, that's their prerogative with their money.
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Then you tiptoe around hinting that Mr. Market is the ultimate authority in fairness and that if you can't get it from your boss, well, you will be forced to get it from him.
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Note that there is a long, long history of bosses making this into a contest between you and your coworkers. That is a distraction. You gain absolutely nothing by saying "I am better than Suzy and should be paid more."
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The only comparison that matters is "Your present offer for my services is X. We both know that I would, if I subjected myself to market discipline, be offered Y by at least one firm. You don't want me to ask around. I don't want to have to ask around. X < Y. Fix X."
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Not really though, once you have dozens/hundreds of employees, internal fairness matters. Also, you deserve a raise but I’d have to give 160 other raises which would tank the business.
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If your entire workforce is paid below market value, you have bigger problems and are in a precarious situation already.
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Yep. Bosses play these cards often. I've been told I couldn't get a promotion/raise because that would put me equal to coworker X and that would not be fair because of his seniority. He clearly got the opposite feedback because he quit soon after... and so did I.
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“I wrote the code that made us 1m$” != get a raise necessarily. Because you were in this position thanks to 100s of others.
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Just saying it’s not always just the boss trying to squeeze out a few $
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