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Get a new job. There's no solution here because management does not respect your effort.
Focus on your own career, do whats good for you, don't look at what others are making. There are plenty of people in your situation making less than their coworkers instead of the same
You spend your time in a different manner than they do, something that takes less skill (in terms of programming), but more skill in terms of non-programming. It's just different work, not more important or less.
Could you do all the work if they left? If not, you have to acknowledge their contributions to the company.
The only thing that matters is whether or not you feel like you are being compensated fairly for the value you bring.
I fully understand the sensation of feeling sick at how much someone else gets but it's really important to your own happiness to consider your situation on an absolute basis rather than relative to others.
This is what is described in "Liar's Poker" as "ever-increasing levels of relative poverty" and if you let it get to you it will really knaw away at you.
> I believe they are over paid for where we live. This is the line I have a bit of trouble with. You shouldn't try to bring others down to feel better about making more, you should see what they're being paid and realize you are worth more. Outline this in asking for compensation adjustment, or begin to look elsewhere. If you can't find a role making more, just try not to let what others make bother you. At the end o…
Why is the level for senior and non senior the same? The company is not tech enough to know the difference?
If you are in a system that has put a ceiling on your ability to contribute or has put a ceiling on the price they are willing to pay for your contributions, and this bothers you, then you should find somewhere else to work.
Capitalism doesn't care what you think you deserve.
You're underpaid.
If you're their senior, you need compensation that reflects this difference. Otherwise, there's no point in being their senior.