Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

lol. So now that the comp thread has died down. Errrr... how do you talk about compensation with your peers?

What consequences, if any, have you see of sharing numbers? What benefits have you seen? What are aspects you should be delicate about? What are points you should make sure to hit?

The most memorable experience I had around this was when a bunch of my coworkers and I who all started at almost exactly the same time found out we made exactly the same amount, and one person had asked for half that and got the same as the rest of us. Felt good about that job

Oddly enough, and I think companies don’t realise it, the number at the end of the payslips doesn’t matter as much as the feeling that it’s fair compared to others.

100% -- though this dynamic changes when folks are willing to talk about their compensation publicly, meaning others starts to include folks at similar roles in other companies. That said, any situation where a diverse group of folks make the same for the same job is good

Ja it gets complicated inter company, hell even in the same company as rarely two people do exactly the same job, but it’s something to aspire to I think.

This was at a consultancy where everyone was billed at the same rate for context

We had something similar at Siemens. There was a direct mapping of Job (title) -> Pay (slight adjustments for performance but minor). It wasn’t a perfect system as departments sometimes weren’t completely honest when it came to title and work mapping but the direction was right.