How’d you find out your partner (art/copy not romantic) makes more than you?

I’m remote and they live in LA, I asked about their roommates and they told me they didn’t have any.

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Companies sometimes follow a pay scale depending where the WFH employee is living. For instance, Idaho has a much lower cost of living than NY or LA.

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I don’t care if my partner makes more or less than me. We don’t do the same job.

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lol ok

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I’d straight up ask. If you’re partners they should want the best for you, and you wanting fair compensation won’t bring theirs down. Otherwise you could go right to your CD and say that you’re aware of the pay gap and ask for an increase. I once found out about a pay gap when seeing how much we would charge the client for our hours

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At my agency there’s our creative titles, then the corporate titles (SVP, Associate etc) and everyone’s in the same tier has the same bill rates.

Or they have family money? That’s really typical in our industry.

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Um, what do room mates have to do with it?

Ah, true, true

Do you work remote in a lower cost of living city? Are they going into the office in LA while you’re remote? Do they have more experience than you? Have they been there longer? Etc etc, many factors here…

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