r/personalfinance Jul 02 '19

I received an accidental mail with all salaries for everyone in the company Employment

Hey, first time posting here. Hope this post will be ok.

This is problematic in regards to personal information discretion, but my issue is:

I realized I'm being significantly underpaid in comparison to others who do the same work as me.

I feel frustrated and upset about that fact. Not sure how to approach from here.

How would you approach the situation?


EDIT 1: Thanks for all the answers. There are many good ones in-between!

There are also a few that clearly want to see the world burn 😅

I had never expected this many replies, so please don't hold it against me for not answering each one of you.


RESULT:

First off. Again, thank you to all of you, who pitched in with your personal experiences, hardships, concerns, and advice. I have read through most of all ~2000 of them 😅

I have chosen to simply delete and bury the faulty email, and I will add a bit about being careful to not forward email-chains in our security newsletter this month instead. This way it will benefit everyone in the company to be wary of forwarding email-chains. The WHOLE chain will be forwarded.

I had a sit-down with the boss-man, and he agreed to give me a raise, and a promotion.

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u/fuzzyToeBeanz ​ Jul 02 '19

Just because they do the same work doesn't mean you're equal. They could easily have some more experience, certs etc to bring to the table.

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u/thecremeegg Jul 02 '19

What does experience matter if you're doing the same job to the same level? Sure one person has been doing it longer and in more places but that doesn't really mean anything in the real world. If anything it looks bad on them!

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u/propanetable Jul 02 '19

I had someone pay me to come to their house to fix their TV set up. I pushed a button. Cleaned up some wires. They paid me $100. I talked to my aunt about how I didn’t really do anything. I felt a little bad. She pointed out that I knew what button to push.

Having that extra skill in the company arsenal may be worth more salary to retain if they ever need it.

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u/fuzzyToeBeanz ​ Jul 02 '19

I'd rather pay someone more for relevant and useful experience so they can come to help my company and my product instead of going to the competition. Not that hard to understand why someone gets paid more. If you know you're valuable you'll get the salary you deserve.

The "real world" values experience.

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u/_El_Troubadour ​ Jul 02 '19

You have no idea how the real world works.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '19

I do 100% agree with you for unqualified work.

Skilled work however you’d have to be out of your mind to believe that an experienced employee looks worse on paper than the inexperienced.