I work in a mid sized national company in IT and do well for myself, over 6 figures but I’ve requested an additional raise.

I have access to the salary data of everyone at each of our local branches, and I’m essentially asking for what each local branch owner makes (~200k), while also knowing that the hourly workers are still barely getting $1-2k raises.

I’m all for eating the rich, but how’s this figure into the mental model?

On one hand, the “rich owners” turned out to not actually be that rich, at least salary wise. I’m comfy, but inflation has been a removed.

On the other hand, I’m asking for a raise while others who work manual intensive jobs are still struggling, and this amount of money could be going those at the working hourly.

Hoping this drives some interesting conversation and not some attack thread.

  • SgtThunderC_nt@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    You’re the only person who will ever advocate for your own well-being. A business has an entire workforce that advocate for their well-being.

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      Collectively advocate even! Some sort of group, a “union” of like minded employees we could call it