#fairpay

So I found out from a peer that H1B employees get automatic raises because they have to be at a certain salary. No one needs to ask or approve, they just get it whereas we wait and wait forever to get any raise. How is this fair?

Bank of America: $30.5 BILLION in 2025 profit.

CEO compensation: $41 MILLION.

Yet the same operations job can be posted at $63K–$124K.. a $61,000 spread for one title.

Nobody expects executive pay and employee pay to be equal.

But when the company is making billions and the people doing the day-to-day work can be valued nearly 2x differently for the same role, that’s worth talking about.

At what point does a “pay range” just become ridiculous?

Not any of us chumps. But Brian has done well for himself. Can’t wait to hear the annual BS about limited pools and bonuses. Brian got his; that’s all that matters

2010: $6.1 million
2011: $7.0 million
2012: $12.0 million
2013: $13.1 million
2014: $13.1 million
2015: $16.0 million
2016: $20.0 million
2017: $23.0 million
2018: $26.5 million
2019: $29.0 million
2020: $24.5 million
2021: $32.0 million
2022: $30.0 million
2023: $29.0 million
2024: $35.0 million
2025: $41.0 million

Know your worth

Here’s some alarming information. You’re gonna p-e yourself when you see how much Walmart is paying those H1B guys:

Total Filings: Historically filed over 21,500 total applications across multiple years, with about 3,545 H-1B LCAs filed in recent baseline annual cycles.

Salary Range: The median H-1B salary is approximately $136,000 to $145,703 depending on the fiscal year data, with 75% of salaries falling below $162,227.

Employee Base: Walmart employs over 2,000 H-1B visa holders, primarily concentrated in technology, engineering, and e-commerce positions.

Shame on Walmart for not paying its US associates at a similar rate.

Full report here => https://ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/executive_excess_2026_report.pdf

Highlights:

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna hauled in the largest compensation package in the Low-Wage 100, with $38.0 million – 765 times as much as the company’s $49,630 median pay.

Dishonorable Mentions for 2025 Category “Low-Wage 100” company

Widest pay ratio Lumentum CEO Michael Hurlston CEO pay $27.7 million Median pay $9,595

Pay ratio Lowest median wage Western Digital $9,595 Irving Tan $11.5 million Median pay $8,740

Highest CEO pay IBM CEO Arvind Krishna $38.0 million Median pay $49.630

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna hauled in the largest compensation package in the Low-Wage 100, with $38.0 million – 765 times as much as the company’s $49,630 median pay. Forty years ago, few would have imagined that this technology pioneer, renowned for providing well-paying, secure U.S. jobs, would one day rank among the Low-Wage 100. Today, IBM employs more people in India than in the United States.

Great read. Absolutely disgusting what IBM has done since King Gerstner came in 4-1-93.

How's that fair?

Take all the bonuses away from M4 and above.
Make all M4 and above take a 3% pay cut.
Give all M3 and below a minimum of a 5% raise.
Then we will believe that you truly understand we are the most important assets the company has and that we need to be compensated.

Has anyone felt that they or another employee have been discriminated against for either age, gender or religion?

My colleague and I are working on a project that has resulted in required overtime. He obviously gets into the office three hours after me so I have to stay on later/longer to make sure we’re on the same page.

If I take a couple hours off for a dental appointment, I don’t get paid overtime that week; however, if he takes an entire vacation day and gets 4 hours of overtime the rest of the days, he gets paid time and a half.

I get that it’s due to the California laws, but I really think if the company claims everything has to be equal when it comes to engagement, the same rules should apply when it comes to our compensation because that’s where it really matters and where we really feel frustration and exclusion. It certainly puts a damper on the culture and team dynamics.

I know the obvious solution and I intend to log off at the end of my shift. If my peer needs to connect with me, he can get online early since they’re paying him overtime either way. It just su-ks. The company can’t be like other companies (and countries) and not take advantage of overtime loopholes that sc--w employees.

The cost of living is skyrocketing, and people can't afford to make ends meet on the penny-pinching wages you pay. You can do better.

I'm glad the boys' club is finally getting the reckoning it deserves. This is a win.

This finding is absolutely appalling:
"Neumark studied pay disparities at Nike using data the company provided to Hender’s attorneys during discovery. He concluded Nike had a gender pay gap of more than $11,000 per employee between 2015 and 2019."

After eight years with the company, consistently good performance reviews, and earning my Series 7, I never expected to be living paycheck to paycheck. But with the pay scale failing to keep up with the rising cost of living, I have reached the point where I am putting my electric bill on a credit card.

I am seriously considering taking on a second job, and I am wondering how many other employees are already doing the same. What kind of side work have you found that fits around your Edward Jones schedule? Has management raised any concerns about outside employment?

It is frustrating to have the licenses, experience, and positive reviews, yet still struggle to cover basic household expenses. At what point does the company acknowledge that the current pay structure is not sustainable?

Dell has a strong fairness result. Its median employee pay is $78,796, and its CEO earns 43 times the median employee pay. Dell also pays employees more than the profit generated per employee. These results give Dell a combined fairness score of 84 out of 100. The main reason for the high score is its relatively low CEO compensation.

https://fair500.com/

Median employee compensation is $93,397, while three-year average profit per employee is only about $4,083. This suggests comparatively solid employee compensation despite weak profits during the measurement period. The result may change considerably when the business cycle improves.

https://fair500.com/articles/profit-per-employee.html

Why can’t union reps get laid off seems unfair

Why are some people getting more weeks of severance in the same position - same team - with the same years than others?

https://youtube.com/shorts/cYCHjg4a0fk?is=j8j7dqw6oCh6ynQu

Years of hard-earned shares, gone in a jiffy. People poured everything into their roles, and just because the company decides that a role no longer exists, with zero explanation, zero rationalization, employees are left holding the loss.

And the timing? May 31st. Current quarter incomplete. Not only do you lose the shares you earned over years, vesting over the next 3 years, you lose out on the current quarter too.

How is any of this fair?

The shares should be paid in full as those were allocated on the basis of the hard work done so far. This was definitely not expected from Fidelity.

I have been thinking about why pay is so broken both in our industry and at DXC, and I keep coming back to two issues. First, companies treat hiring as a cost to be minimized rather than an investment in talent. Second, nobody knows what anyone else is actually making, so we are all just guessing at what fair pay looks like.

1️⃣ Lack of Leadership
Employee: “I stopped looking up because there was no one to look to.”

Great leaders set direction, model integrity, and earn respect every day.

2️⃣ Lack of Trust
Employee: “Every time I spoke up, it cost me something.”

Great leaders reward honesty, defend their people, and prove every voice matters.

3️⃣ Feeling Undervalued
Employee: “My work spoke loudly. No one was listening.”

Great leaders notice effort, name impact, and show appreciation often.

4️⃣ No Growth Path
Employee: “I wanted to grow. They wanted me to stay the same.”

Great leaders build clear paths and invest in growth early.

5️⃣ Lack of Challenge
Employee: “I used to feel alive solving problems. Now it’s just tasks.”

Great leaders reignite curiosity by giving purpose, not just projects.

6️⃣ Burnout
Employee: “The more great work I do, the more they expect.”

Great leaders protect energy, balance ambition, and stop rewarding exhaustion.

7️⃣ Lack of Inclusion
Employee: “I was in the room, but never really part of it.”

Great leaders create environments where every voice is heard and valued.

8️⃣ Unfair Pay
Employee: “They said they valued me, but not enough to show it.”

Great leaders match reward to impact and make fairness non-negotiable.

https://www.stephanieshills.com/weeklynewsletteroptin

Hemsley - please note: received no raise, while your compensation increased. That delta's super to acept.

I have been with the company for more than a nine yrs, and it is soooo frustrating to see long-term employees treated as though their contributions do not matter. Many of us have lost confidence in management's ability to lead effectively. Repeating the same scripted remarks every quarter does not address the real issue, and employees are tired of hearing it.

People want fair pay, not more corporate language. If compensation does not improve, the company risks losing experienced employees who have carried this business for years.

It is discouraging to see reports that we received nothng while the stock price rises. That only reinforces the perception that leadership is rewarding itself while ignoring the people doing the work.

With the Employee rises of 0% settled for another year its time for the Execs to take their big haul again. Internally DXC give the message that things are bad and they can't afford pay rises, on the Results calls they say all is going great and then go and take their rises. They always take raises at the beginning of the fiscal year, leaving employees at the end of the year. Del bean even goes as far as saying money has been budgeted for employees this year, then the money then evaporates i guess into the dodgy Execs accounts.

DXC Execs are one big lie, Will they get raises this year, whats your guess?

Corporate IT Comrades:

I have been in my role for less than a year so I’m not eligible for a true “promotion.” Plus, we all know getting a promotion right when you’re eligible is never going to happen. However, I have been doing well above my job description for that entire time and that has even been acknowledged by many people leaders in and adjacent my team.
Due to the fake “we are broke” story when bonuses came out, I barely got anything from it despite meeting the max threshold.
All of this to say, I know I’m being paid $10k-$20k less than my peers that have the same job title plus I’m doing above and beyond that.
Is there any way to negotiate/demand a higher salary right now? Due to my personal situation, applying to new jobs to play hardball isn’t really an option right now.
I want to stay at centene but I want to be paid fairly.

I recently found out somebody in the same position as I am with a year less with the company is making more than I am. I'm still trying to figure out what to do, but to say I'm pi---d would be an understatement.

I can't believe AIG is giving the UK off for Good Friday and Easter, bit not in the US.

Go look at the UK holiday calendar vs US, they get a lot more time off than we do.

Sad AIG doesn't treat everyone fair.

Do as i say not as i do. I will take your pay and with your money i will increase my salary by millions every year.

You deserve pay cuts every year for your hard work and delivering. This is all fair and ethical. I have different ethics to you, i deserve everything and you deserve 0.

If youre going to track hours of employees complying with RTO and "fire" them for not making 6 or more hours a day then fire the remote employees first because it's completely unfair they arent under the same scrutiny.

I’m hearing stories of some colleagues across the business receiving contractual bonuses and some not, even though they are in the same position. Does anyone have any info on this? I imagine it was due to different LOB’s now being merged but seems slightly unfair?

It’s wild to think how many jobs could be saved if his pay matched his actual value. We’re talking tens of millions that could’ve kept real people employed.

Bonus and scorecard is a history!
Can anyone share what bonus we are getting and how is it going to be fair to everyone? if my boss decides to give more to his favorite person at the team, that’s possible now.

How do they continue to defend and justify the pay discrepancies within the same job roles and functions? Especially with women or POC. 🤔

They know how to squeeze the last bit of blood out of the employees. The company is making $650million cash profit but they plead poverty and won't pay the employees. Execs take millions for themselves and on top they are using the profits cash buying a third of the company by share buybacks. Drums package suddenly goes from $6.7 million to $10million effectively back door. They squeeze every $ they can from employees. Its plundering every which way they can.

Somehow, after being RIF’d, I’ve come to believe that if AI truly represents the future, it may actually bring more fairness and consistency to decision-making. Unlike human systems that can be influenced by favoritism or bias, AI has the potential to evaluate people based on clear criteria, data, and merit rather than personal agendas.

Did anyone else receive premium pay for working every day last week?

It was brought to my attention by a teammate that he received premium pay for last week. He asked whether I had received it as well and if I knew what premium pay was. I told him I wasn’t familiar with it, but I was happy to help him understand how it would be calculated in his weekly pay. After looking into it together, we learned that premium pay is double his hourly rate.

He then reached out to our manager to confirm, and she told him that she decided to give him premium pay for all of his hard work and asked him to keep it discreet.

Both my teammate and I hold the same position as Transaction Analysts. Our team was short-staffed last week, and myself along with four other team members worked extremely hard and also worked every day that week—yet none of us received premium pay.

I’m genuinely confused as to why premium pay would be given to only one person and not extended to others who performed the same work under the same conditions. I am a strong performer and consistently praised in meetings for my ability to efficiently clear accounts (providing context, not bragging). Despite this, I am paid at the minimum wage level while also taking on responsibilities typically handled by managers, while others on the team earn more.

This situation feels very discouraging and honestly may be my breaking point. I’m struggling to understand why premium pay would be selectively given rather than applied fairly across the team. I would appreciate any insight or perspective on this. Thank you in advance.

Ok, let me get this straight, Walgreens wants employees to donate to a fund to help under paid coworkers? Am I understanding this correctly? That can't be what it truly is. No company would expect its employees to make up the pay gap for them not paying their employees a living wage? Am I missing something or is Walgreens really that out of touch???

Is it working to bring the best out of you?

Do you have a fair shot at getting a top rating if you are not FNF?

Do most people feel they are rated fairly?

Salaried workers have big egos and think they're better than everyone else and management will see that and treat them well. They think unions are just to protect lazy losers, when it's really just about fair treatment. Bad employees in a union can still be fired.