So, because you have one specialized software engineer position that will cost you double your normal rate you’re going to double your rate across the board for ALL software engineers?
If it is specialized position you create a new position title obviously. That position has brackets and levels.
In todays litigious society you have to be able to defend how and why you pay people the compensation that you do. Picking compensations rates put of the air will just lead to legal trouble when employees eventually share their compensation.
No, A has more experience and that experience is harder to find. If B had SQL server experience along with the front end coding then the offers would be closer.
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both are programmers - developers. If they are going to be in the same position then yes.
And being in the same position, at least in my company, means the following:
Junior programmer
Veteran Programmer (the translation may get weird here, but you get the idea)
senior programmer
then comes the positions with higher salary >
Junior-Veteran-Senior Systems Analyst…
If both are for example on the junior programmer position - the salary should be the same, normally.
Low ball them both, see what they say. You have your ceiling, they have their floors. Heh
Well you have a salary range on that position for a reason…
If you hire a woman, you have to price in the cost of lawsuits like this. You won’t have this problem if you hire a guy.
Lawsuits like this create an incentive to hire men over women. As usual government intervention achieves the opposite of what they are intended to do.
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Wouldn’t need those lawsuits if people kept their hands to themselves and treated their workplace as a workplace and their employees and colleagues with respect.
It’d be a bit of a stupid and short-sighted reaction to blame the victims instead of the perpetrators.
It’d also be very naive to believe harassment and unequal treatment of women is the only problem at Blizzard.
There’s sexism against and harassment of men as well, there’s racism, there are tax evasion related issues, there’s underpayment of employees, there was the hidden The Warden program that came with WoW and was essentially spyware and other things that didn’t respect players’ privacy (e. g. Real ID), there have been issues related to homophobia, there was the giving female employees gift cards for sharing their pregnancy data via a third party app, there were the questionable layoffs after a record year, there’s all the giving employees in-game perks instead of money for extra work,…
and by the way the protests against payment disparaties aren’t new either. The focus is a different one now, but the problem was already there.
So while I know what you’re saying and know that some people at Blizzard and other companies probably think exactly like that, I hope they won’t be shortsighted enough to go down the easy route of “womynz bad womynz complain” here.
And I mean, what’s the alternative to having that lawsuit? Being silent for some more years or decades? Everyone who’s getting harassed taking one for the team (of women)? As a woman myself I wouldn’t want anyone to be quiet about getting harassed out of fear of making it harder for women in general to get jobs in the industry.