Inbox: "Asked for a raise and was told it would increase my salary above more senior employees, so no." This is just a negotiating position. Your market value is not set by your number of days served in comparison to the nearest coworker, but by demonstrated business impact.
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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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