How do you share your salaries?

Question

Do you share your salaries among your team? How do you go about it?We're finding some pretty large pay disparities among our team and would like to compile an open sheet of salaries and bonuses. Some of our executive management has been very vocally against this and there are fears of retaliation. We'd like to be careful in how we go about this.

codegeek · Accepted Answer

You never want to ask for a raise because "the other person with same job description makes more". It will never work. Make a case based on your own skills and value and go from there.
If someone comes to me and says "Hey, why is John paid 20k more than me when we are both doing the same thing in the same team?", I may counter that with "Well may be John brings more value than you. So instead of comparing with JOhn, why don't you make a case for getting the additional 20k or whatever. What if John does a better job than you?"
Yes some people are underpaid because they don't know any better but it is a losing battle to compare with co-workers. Compare with your own value and make your case. If you are worth it, they will do it. If not, they will tell you and you have the choice to go find something else that does. In IT, there are plenty of options.

stop50 · Answer

We know what the others make. There is a system that uses certain events (years of work in the company, training) to level up the pay.

aintmeit · Answer

It doesn't matter. They'll crush you anyways. Do you understand futility when it states you in the face?

kazinator · Answer

> How do you share your salaries?Whatever the government doesn't take goes to wife and kids.