“Probably not true, but go ahead and sue the leftist bastards anyway.”
I was at a Fortune 500 company where candidates who negotiated well got wonderful salaries. Candidates who didn’t got some really low salaries by taking the first offer. I can see a situation where, due to HR practices, you could have aggressive male negotiators earning twice what their more submissive female coworkers make. And, yes, ratios were that bad. This has nothing to do with sexism and everything to do with women, by-and-large, being lousy at playing the male games.
There was a similar situation where a court decided a cell phone company gave great deals to whites but less advantageous deals to blacks. The company’s response was, whites negotiated and the blacks did not. (I don’t recall how it was settled.)
I was on an IT contract in the Seattle area where the project lead, who knew how much everyone was being paid, talked to me way too much. All team members were contractors, due to the project type.
Keep in mind that the numbers below are not billing rates. They are net to the contractor. Keep in mind also that the skill sets, though not identical, were very similar. In other environments they all had similar, if not identical value.
Of 27 contractors, the lowest paid one made $28 an hour and the highest paid one made $275 an hour.
I knew the one that made $28 because she was also pretty talkative. She thought she was making lots of money. :-)
“I was at a Fortune 500 company where candidates who negotiated well got wonderful salaries. Candidates who didn’t got some really low salaries by taking the first offer.”
And does that quality also make you a better performer?