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Open Salaries: Outcomes

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Re: Open Salaries: Outcomes

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@author

Can you please post the names and all current salaries on your website? Since you don't care about your employees privacy, I would like to use this along with LinkedIn to easily pick off your better employees. Thanks!

Edit: Also! Any plans to open health care information?

Re: Open Salaries: Outcomes

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't companies with that size have budget-salaries which are equal for all employees on the same rank / position / experience level? I doubt that BMW has an engineer that earns more than his / her colleague at the same position.

Usually the pay for a job is within a range. This range can be quite large so you will have people with the same job making different money.

Let's take the BMW example. Most of their engineers in Germany are paid according to a collective agreement where the salary is determined by looking at a table based on your actual position, your background, and seniority. There is an additional salary based on some specified performance metrics but that usually accounts for a difference of 5% maximum.

Only few engineers in leading position and with larger responsibilty are paid based on an individually negotiated contract.

Re: Open Salaries: Outcomes

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I'd like to get push-back to the idea of everyone earning the same salary. Why wouldn't it work from some people who seem to have some experience like you have?

Do you mean everyone in the same role, or everyone in the company? I guess you could argue that everyone contributes equally in their own way, but it sounds like it would be hard to deal with market rates. For example, if the market rate for a support agent is $30k and the market rate for a developer is $70k what do you do?

> everyone contributes equally in their own way

In my experience, this has never been true. People have different motivations, skills etc.

Although if we can assume that its true, it would be easier to implement govt mandates like Paycheck fairness act.

Re: Open Salaries: Outcomes

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@author Can you please post the names and all current salaries on your website? Since you don't care about your employees privacy, I would like to use this along with LinkedIn to easily pick off your better employees. Thanks! Edit: Also! Any plans to open health care information?

You don't need to be an asshole.

Re: Open Salaries: Outcomes

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@author Can you please post the names and all current salaries on your website? Since you don't care about your employees privacy, I would like to use this along with LinkedIn to easily pick off your better employees. Thanks! Edit: Also! Any plans to open health care information?

Salary does not necesarily map to skill. It is usually defined in terms of your last salary, that is usually disclosed as a part of your background check.

Then, offers for H-1B workers are available online. Some other information is on glassdoor.

Re: Open Salaries: Outcomes

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This might work for a company of 25, but what a disaster it would be for a company of 100,000+

Don't companies with that size have budget-salaries which are equal for all employees on the same rank / position / experience level? I doubt that BMW has an engineer that earns more than his / her colleague at the same position.

At one mega-corp I worked at we had job levels (say 20-35 or so) each with a corresponding salary range.

All they'd do was promote you to the next level and give you a salary in the next range.

Re: Open Salaries: Outcomes

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This might work for a company of 25, but what a disaster it would be for a company of 100,000+

Really? A lot of governments are one of the few employers with more than 100k+ employees, and have a lot of open salaries for civil servants.

And how's that working out for them?
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