Koolau
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We're pretty tightly banded as a company, but this was a pretty unique scenario.
We were starting a new business unit and I had just moved across the country to get it going. With cost of living and taxes in the new location, I had actually taken a de facto pay cut for the promotion into the role to help start the unit. I was betting on the come that the business would work out and good things would happen.
Six months later, I'm doing three jobs while they try to build out the team. The new VP of Sales joins the company and promptly asks me if I participate in the Deferred Comp plan and should he join it.
It took me about 10 minutes to realize that he made enough money to access to the plan and I didn't. I was not amused.
But I waited to deal with it. I had my boss over a barrel because so much of what we were doing was wired into me at that point. If I had gone in and asked for the raise then, it would have felt like I was leveraging him.
Instead I waited six months until his team was built, things had settled a bit, and we had a longer relationship. I gently put the issue to him and pointed out that I had waited to bring this up. He said he would look into it.
My boss was (and is) a great person. Two months later I asked him about it and he said "You don't need to worry about that." Um, OK.
When raise time came next year he got me the bump into the right pay band + some more.
We've had a great relationship for 15 years and the risks I took for the company (those above and others) have more than worked out.
That is fantastic.
Megacorp had 20K people so one staffer who felt "worth" more than he was being paid was offered the door or the usual compensation track. Not that the money was bad, but there were no quantum leaps available no matter the contribution. Better performers moved up faster, but never jumped beyond the published pay scales. I say published, because THAT was a major leap forward. When I started, no one was allowed to see the pay scales. Perhaps 15 years in, that was changed for some reason. YMMV