Your manager with 10 years at the company just discovered you – hired last year – make nearly the same salary. That's not your problem, it's HR's failure to adjust existing salaries to market rates. But now the resentment affects your working relationship. How do you handle when your fair comp exposes someone else's underpayment?

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That's not an uncommon scenario, and it shouldn't come as a surprise to the manager. Companies typically pay new hires better than long-term employees, it's how they attract new talent. Plus, loyal employees, in today's corporate world, tend to be taken for granted and pigeonholed. This phenomenon is so common there's a term for it, wage inversion.

agree, i think everyone knows at this point that the longer you stay at a company, the less you make than the job hoppers. most of my career has been job hopping (at my 11th company) now after 24 years of working full-time.

This happened to me at my last company, and it was awkward. The best I could do was keep working as normal and try to ease the tension. At the end of the day, it’s not your fault—that’s on HR.

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