Found via https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/what-it-was-like-working-for-gitlab/
I always considered the gitlab model, where the comp can be calculated via a public online tool, to be pretty progressive.
While this certainly doesn’t scale (as they admit) I think the sentiment is right.
I don’t wish for other people to be paid differently based on what I’m doing.
Do you think that if a team member who is producing less starts getting paid less, they’re going to work more? No, if anything they’ll produce even less.
Have you honestly felt resentment towards someone else because you chose to do more work than they did? You’re the one who controls how much work you do. How is it fair to them that your labor output level sets the bar for the salary? If they haven’t been let go, then it actually seems like they’re the ones closer to the actual proper output level for the salary, and you’re the one overproducing. Also, studies show that people overestimate their own contributions towards group work and underestimate others’.
That mindset is how you get a bunch of workaholics who are all terrified that someone else is producing more.
Chillax. Find your own groove that you feel is fair to your pay, and live in it.
