How would you react to this (salary-related)

Kami said:
You accepted the job and knew the position you'd be in, you can request a pay review but if you kick up a stink about this you'll be out on your ear. Frankly it WAS enough money, now you're annoyed purely because someone else held out for more and got it.
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Scam said:
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.
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Not to pick on you but you're simply the last person to post something along these lines, if the new bloke hasn't asked for salary A then you can hardly say he held out for it or that his negotiating skills were better unless he has done it subconciously.

That said I do partially agree, the salary was apparantly acceptable until Scam discovered the new guy was going to be earning more for the same job. It doesn't sound fair but I don't know that this is a good issue to make a final stand on, sometimes picking the times for your battles is as important as the way you fight them.
 
Any company which doesn't have a standardised pay structure is bound to get crap like this.

If you think you're better than them at your job, ask for a raise - and justify yourself.
 
Why are your colleagues' salary negotiations any of your business? There are all sorts of reasons an employer may pay people different money for doing the same job. The days of unionised wage equality are long since over I'm afraid.
 
Two of my colleagues were made redundant in December. Leaving me, I have been with the company for 5 years.

They tell me that they have appointed a new Marketing Manager - without advertising the role internally.

I am currently still (after two months) training her on the systems. Also Photoshop, which, to me is a very basic Marketing skill (the role has always been in house).

So I am training, someone, who's job I can do, who's job I have more company and Marketing experience to do.

I feel your pain.

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the question is are you REALLY better than this other guy. INtroducing someone to a new system they aren't familiar with and helping someone get up to speed in a new work place is NOT at all the same thing as the guy knowing or being less skilled than you or having less experience. Alex Ferguson could take a job managing Leed's, being that he's not been there before people would show him around, introduce the players, teach him what schedual they are on at the moment etc, etc, before he actually starts to do his own thing. While Tony Adam's meanwhile went to Pompie and was learning his job and wasn't up to speed.

Confusing the two can be easy but change the situation completely, if this guy is simply getting up to speed but has more experience, maybe more qualifications and might be doing a harder job with more responsibility after he's up to speed then you don't stand a chance of getting a pay rise. If he really doesn't know as much as you and needs your help a lot and you're really teaching him then you deserve to be paid the same at the very least I would think.
 
this is quite normal - wages are often normalised against the market rate which tends to move upwards. It is only logical that new hires will be on a higher salary than other fairly recent employees. You are contracted to do a job at a certain salary and this salary has the same value to you whether you know what your recent hires are earning or not. The good news is that your manager likely is well aware of the wage difference and so there is a very good chance that if you are a good performer you will get a rise come review time. I would concentrate on making sure you are such a good performer that you are top of the list when the slalry review is done. A few years of top class performance and you should be able to jump way over the new hire no worries.
 
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