Found out someone I onboarded makes more than me and I don't know what to do with that
He joined seven months after me. I walked him through the codebase, our deploy process, the whole thing. Good guy, genuinely no issue with him.
Came up sideways in a conversation about a mortgage. He's about 12k above me.
I know the answer is "that's just what the market paid when he was hired" and I know I should take it to my manager with a number and not a feeling. I know all of that. I've written the message three times and deleted it every time, because some part of me is scared the answer is going to be that they think he's worth more.
Has anyone actually raised this and had it go well?
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AnonymousAnon Nobody tells you internal raises are usually capped at some percentage while new hires get priced at whatever the market is that quarter. Two completely different budgets. Doesn't make it feel better, but it helped me stop reading it as a verdict on my work.
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AnonymousAnon I raised it and it went fine, but the framing mattered enormously — I never mentioned his number. Just market data and what I'd shipped. The moment you name a colleague's salary it turns into an HR conversation about how you found out, instead of a conversation about you.