> If they find out their co-workers are making more money to do the same job, they are likely to take action. Here’s the rub: “same job”. Sure, this is a reasonable attitude to take if it’s genuinely the same job and each worker is creating genuinely the same value. But everywhere I’ve worked, comparable jobs are defined as graded job families, and it has been very obvious that there is a diverse range of work being…
Work assignment does not equal ability.
A phd can be assigned lowly management work, lets say tracking stuff, creating excel sheets and powerpoint presentations. That decision is made by the company and department.
Does that mean they should not be compensated for the skills they posess? Surely not.
Lets not even start with the metrics used to gauge someone's results. If they even exist, they are consistently useless.