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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless OP was part of the hiring process or oversees budgeting, how would they know that the new guy is getting more money for less work?  And then on top of that, OP will be performing less work now and wants to be paid more because it's not fair!  Realistically, how would one even bring this up without seeming a bit entitled.  And this is a perceived slight.  What if new guy is a better negotiator than OP has been over the years.  What if other peers in the org are making more for the same work, not even half, because they were better negotiators?  I would try and figure that out than assuming its gender based.[/quote]

Wait, so you've imagined a whole world where OP makes less than the men around her because they're better negotiators, but she's not even supposed to bring this up because she might seem entitled? You've really identified the bind she's in, apparently without realizing it. [/quote]

PP.  You're right, it is a bind.  That's why it is hard to bring it up.  Maybe I need to get up with the times, but I remember growing up in the 80's/90s that one of the reasons women (not all women of course) made less than men was that they weren't good salary negotiators.  Men had been doing it for decades, even centuries, and women still had an "I'm just lucky to be here" attitude and wouldn't haggle.

Maybe it's no longer prevalent due to gender, but I have definitely seen where 2 people do pretty much the same job and the pay disparity is pretty big because one person negotiated salary better than the other.

As for OP, we've now seen that she has only been there a year.  That's not very long and she is still building her reputation within the organization.  But again, it's never a good look to complain about salary when you are being given LESS work.[/quote]

In an environment that doesn't want to pay women equally, if women try to negotiate, they will be punished. It's not about "negotiating salary better." I'm female and the negative responses I've had to trying to negotiate salary shocked the men I know.  It was fine, I just left and made the money I knew I was worth, but if a company is consistently paying men more for the same work, "salary negotiation" is the pretext, not the explanation. [/quote]
But OP may as well try to negotiate salary and level before just leaving.[/quote]

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