How would you react to this (salary-related)

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I was just wondering people's opinions on this, and whether or not it has happened to anyone else (and what they did about it).

(C < B < A)

I've worked in my current position on salary C for 6 months. In my offer letter it states that I go up to salary B after 6 months. I've just hit that time period, requested it, and got it. We've also just had a new person start with roughly 6 months experience doing the same job at another company. I found out yesterday that he started on salary A (he had a question about his payslip and freely told me). Now, i'm quite offended by this, especially considering the hard time I had actually getting my contracted payrise.

Is this a case of suck it up and ignore it, or get in the GM's office and demand the same? It's a fairly junior position that we both have, he's also made it clear that he never asked/argued for salary A, they just gave it to him as the standard starting salary. It is rubbing me the wrong way as i'm actually the one training him up.. If we were very experienced and he's just managed to persuade them to give him salary A i wouldnt feel so bad, but neither of us have much experience yet so that's simply not the case!

We've actually been quite open about it and he assumed I was on salary A as well!

Any advice would be great...

 

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Is the a big difference between salary A and salary B?

Salary B is halfway between A and C, if that makes sense. They're all fairly low but that only makes the difference much larger..

Is he employed by the same company as you?

Yep, he's doing exactly the same job as me. Department of three. Myself, him, and our HOD.

If you're training him, I'd want the same. Boss easily approachable?

Not really! I work in a fairly relaxed (read: not very professional) industry where things arent really done by the book. To my advantage that means it's not as such a big deal to go and ask for a payrise. I've already spoke to my HOD briefly, and said i would probably be taking it up with the GM (as it's her call for anything like this). He pretty much said it's the norm that people coming into companies with experience can ask for more and it happens all the time. If i want a rise, i can leave and go elsewhere. Or threaten to. lol. We dont really get on

 

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Well he came to the company with experience, you didn't as far as I can gather from these posts. Perhaps that's the explanation?

I think that's there explanation. But that's saying that someone with 6 months experience at a different company is worth more than someone who's worked for 6 months at this company? Dont forget, my 6-month payrise to less than what he's started on.

 

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Finding a new job is very diffcult atm, don't make the GM put your top of the list for "cut backs".

This is my only fear, really. The only thing stopping me from sending this email!

Agreed, but at the same time I also feel that because of the guys outside experience he could have bargained a higher wage.

I dont know how to explain this without giving details that i dont want to, but believe me that's not the case. We're both in our early 20s at the complete bottom rung of this industry's ladder (which treats people at the bottom notoriously badly). He came to us after being out of work for 2 months. Basically what i'm trying to say is that there's no way in hell there would have been any discussion of the salary. He would have been told it, and that would have been it. I know for absolute certain that was the case.

As for my pay review, i'm not sure. All i know is that in my contract offer letter it states i go up to B after 6 months (which is what i've just got), and then in another 9 months i will go up to A.

But rather than saying he's getting X more than me. explain what you have done for the company and why you should get x more.

I've drafted up an email (which i'm trying to decide to send or not) and i've concentrated on these aspects.

your HOD was quite right People with experiance are worth more

Absolutely, but he has 6 months experience doing the same role as me at another company. I have 6 months doing the same job at this company. Because most of what we do is internal (i.e. talking to people within the company 99% of the time) i feel my experience is more relevant.

Ho hum.