I think the gist of what she meant was the following: you can think I'm valuable but if I, as an employee, can't make ends meet to reach the end of the month, you're telling me I am not valuable enough, and hence you're not respecting me enough :D
It's not about the absolute amount of money you pay yes, on that we agree, it's about being paid enough.
The same goes with the pay gap. If you have two people of different genders with the same skills and responsibilities and titles and one of the two is payed substantially less than the other you're not valuing both the same way. Even if to their faces you are equally nice and respecting.
The second the person less paid finds out is going to think you don't value them enough, and that's true.
Yeah, that makes a lot more sense with that context.
Basecamp's pay is a great example of how compensation should be handled. I love how they pay the same regardless of location, that's amazing. Thank you for linking that!
Yeah Basecamp's strategy is very cool. The only minor flaw I can imagine is that people living in places in the world that are wildly more expensive than Chicago could be discouraged from applying but I reckon they are not that many and as you said, pay is not everything and Basecamp seems very transparent from day one ;-)
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I think the gist of what she meant was the following: you can think I'm valuable but if I, as an employee, can't make ends meet to reach the end of the month, you're telling me I am not valuable enough, and hence you're not respecting me enough :D
It's not about the absolute amount of money you pay yes, on that we agree, it's about being paid enough.
The same goes with the pay gap. If you have two people of different genders with the same skills and responsibilities and titles and one of the two is payed substantially less than the other you're not valuing both the same way. Even if to their faces you are equally nice and respecting.
The second the person less paid finds out is going to think you don't value them enough, and that's true.
I find very Basecamp's pay structure a very interesting experiment: m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-pay-peop...
Yeah, that makes a lot more sense with that context.
Basecamp's pay is a great example of how compensation should be handled. I love how they pay the same regardless of location, that's amazing. Thank you for linking that!
Yeah Basecamp's strategy is very cool. The only minor flaw I can imagine is that people living in places in the world that are wildly more expensive than Chicago could be discouraged from applying but I reckon they are not that many and as you said, pay is not everything and Basecamp seems very transparent from day one ;-)