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Subject:Re: Equal pay for equal work From:Marc Santacroce <santa -at- TFS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 13 Jun 1995 10:07:22 -0800
At 7:52 AM 6/13/95, Richard Mateosian wrote:
>>Assume, for example, a candidate is making $32k, and that the job
>>opening I have has a salary range of $30,000 to $49,500. My goal may
>>be not to exceed the range's midpoint of $39,900. Even that, however,
>>would be more than a 20% increase for this candidate (and my HR
>>rep would kill me
>When I managed programmers in the 1960s and 1970s we tried to AVOID taking
>advantage of people who had been underpaid in the past. We looked at what we
>were asking them to do and how well we thought they could do it, and we paid
>them accordingly. Everyone doing approximately the same job got
>approximately the same pay.
>Often (particularly for women and minorities) this meant we wound up paying
>new hires a lot more than they had been paid in prior jobs. ...RM
>Richard Mateosian VP, STC Berkeley Chapter
>Freelance Technical Writer srm -at- c2 -dot- org Review Editor, IEEE Micro
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