Right folks, I need some advice on how to go about something properly.
I'm an engineer working for an oil and gas company. My role has a lot of responsibility (I'm directly responsible for projects worth between £30M £100M), it has the appropriate stress levels to go with that. I'm also required to travel to some pretty nasty places on very short notice.
I'm paid an ok salary, but precisely that, a salary. No paid overtime for me!
A major part of our company is manufacturing, here again when my project is in the factory I am directly responsible - the technicians, their supervisors and the engineers in the plant come to me for answers and authorisation. The final signatures rest on me and my boss for handover.
One of the problems is some of those technicians who have nowhere near the qualifications I do, nowhere near the experience I do are getting paid substantially more than I am. We're talking well in to 6 figures. So much so that we have people classed as 'semi skilled labour' driving around in brand new Bentleys.
Now some of this is from the abundance of overtime (double or triple, never single) they have access to, something that in my eyes is the result of very poor management - but that's another story, and the rest is due to their hourly base rates being way above what anyone else in a similar job would be on.
They also get great perks such as inclement weather pay (£20.00 per day it rains, snows or has temps below 5 or above 25 degrees, or where wind is above 25mph.). Travel pay (each day away from home is a min £100 extra, I get nowt as it's apparently classed as part of the job) and offshore rates (they get 3x the amount I do!).
Now this is basically causing a massive amount of resentment between not just me but a lot of the other engineers and managers within the company. Obviously we're not meant to know peoples salaries etc etc..blah blah but the fact is we do.
It's coming up to my appraisal. How do I raise the fact that although for my job i'm not badly paid, when comparing my skills, qualifications and responsibilities against others within the company I'm getting utterly robbed?
Or...do I go become a massively over-qualified factory worker?
I'm an engineer working for an oil and gas company. My role has a lot of responsibility (I'm directly responsible for projects worth between £30M £100M), it has the appropriate stress levels to go with that. I'm also required to travel to some pretty nasty places on very short notice.
I'm paid an ok salary, but precisely that, a salary. No paid overtime for me!
A major part of our company is manufacturing, here again when my project is in the factory I am directly responsible - the technicians, their supervisors and the engineers in the plant come to me for answers and authorisation. The final signatures rest on me and my boss for handover.
One of the problems is some of those technicians who have nowhere near the qualifications I do, nowhere near the experience I do are getting paid substantially more than I am. We're talking well in to 6 figures. So much so that we have people classed as 'semi skilled labour' driving around in brand new Bentleys.
Now some of this is from the abundance of overtime (double or triple, never single) they have access to, something that in my eyes is the result of very poor management - but that's another story, and the rest is due to their hourly base rates being way above what anyone else in a similar job would be on.
They also get great perks such as inclement weather pay (£20.00 per day it rains, snows or has temps below 5 or above 25 degrees, or where wind is above 25mph.). Travel pay (each day away from home is a min £100 extra, I get nowt as it's apparently classed as part of the job) and offshore rates (they get 3x the amount I do!).
Now this is basically causing a massive amount of resentment between not just me but a lot of the other engineers and managers within the company. Obviously we're not meant to know peoples salaries etc etc..blah blah but the fact is we do.
It's coming up to my appraisal. How do I raise the fact that although for my job i'm not badly paid, when comparing my skills, qualifications and responsibilities against others within the company I'm getting utterly robbed?
Or...do I go become a massively over-qualified factory worker?
