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Originally Posted by jjshabado
Why would you need that?
First, let's dispense with the notion that we're in some free-market paradise where everyone is earning what they should. That's not what happens.
And expanding the number of titles people can have doesn't do anything to solve that. It just advertises the amount of money that people are making. Someone who takes the initiative to figure out why some people make more than others might sort it out and make appropriate demands, but these are mostly the people who would have done it otherwise.
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Second, companies moving away from negotiated salaries are making the conscious choice to trade some pros/cons for a different set of pros/cons. For example, you lose some flexibility in paying individual people more but also gain some flexibility in paying people more in accordance with their actual relevant skills than with their negotiating skills.
True, you lose some negatives and you pick up all sorts of new ones. Why not instead just fix the problem in a way that doesn't create any new issues?
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Nonsense. People know other people's job title/role all the time. Nothing changes if the salary is set by position or if the salary is negotiable for each position.
The difference is that one broadcasts your salary to everyone in the office. That's both uncomfortable to a lot of people, and opens up the door for people to get pissed over something they don't really even understand. If it was the only way to inform people about how much their productivity is worth then i guess you might want to consider that an option, but there're better ways.
What's the question?
There're a lot of people/companies who offer career services, and one aspect of that is salary negotiation. Set national standards for the knowledge/experience a person needs to hold that title so no one gets ripped off by charlatans, make sure their compensation is aligned with their clients, and then find a way to open up the lines of communication so that salaried employees are aware of the benefits.
Maybe to compliment this you could require that performance reviews to be made available to employees so they're you're able to get a realistic assessment of what your skills are worth without having to rely on a reference from your manager (which creates a conflict of interest).