salaries

[Marco Anglesio]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> I'm not against making salaries public, especially up in the
> "professional staff" range: it might very well be that person A is
> worth $100k to the company and person B is worth $65k.  In fact, if I

I'm not sure how it is in technical writing, but in software development
the top performers are hugely more productive than the average performers. 
As well, there's a certain degree of risk tolerance: can you trust so and
so to go on risky projects? 

Even if A and B are doing exactly the same job and producing the product
right now, A may be worth more because they can be reassigned to a
difficult piece of work, while B can't be for whatever reason.

That said, this may also be a matter of discrimination. I'm sure an
employer or three has used this to justify sex discrimination with respect
to salary. I do believe that categorical discrimination is intrinsically
wrong; is discrimination on the basis of individual characteristics moral?

Marco

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