SENIOR STAFF FOUND OUT NEWCOMER EARNS $20K MORE THAN HIM, WITH SAME JOB SCOPE

New hire makes $20k more than me

Welp that just about does it for me. I’ve posted here before about this bs job I’ve stumbled upon and the absolute BS I have to put up with in it but today might have just signed it off for me.

So I’ve been at this job like a year and a half. Recently we hired a new person to do my exact same job at another company branch.

Being the senior analyst, I got sent over to train said new hire today. In the course of discussion, I ask him what they started him out at to which he replies very nonchalantly, “Like about 82k.”

I’m sitting there stunned. Legitimately. Right now I’m sitting at 65k. My coworker is at 62k. Never in my life have I ever felt so betrayed by a company.

I’m glad for the new guy. He’s super cool and does great work, but I was just left feeling so upset. I don’t even know what to do. Part of me wants to just walk in tomorrow and quit outright, and part of me knows I can’t afford to do that. What a damned horrible feeling.

Netizens’ comments

1. Start looking for a new job. Thats the only thing you can do bc if they’re underpaying you, they are doing it on purpose and it’s gonna take a lot for you to even get a 10k raise, better off just putting that energy towards interviewing elsewhere
2. That’s when you update your resume. It really seems to be alot easier ( relatively speaking of course ) to find a new job than to pry a decent raise out of a current employer
3. At least try to ask for a raise. Just be prepared to leave if they don’t approve. You know it’s in their budget now.
4. New hire is market rate, you are an old rate. They aren’t just going to bump you up, you either need to push for market rate or go to the market.
5. Get a competing offer and prove market value, the company will most likely match. Don’t be upset at the company or the new hire. The fact that you came here to bitch instead of writing your resume tells me the company was right in paying you the minimum to keep you, and you likely can’t do better on the open market.
   You got two choices, accept it and go back to work tomorrow and stop screwing with your career, or go get a better offer in hand and prove me and your company wrong.