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Frankly, you should just ask your manager what the comp change, if any, would be if you switched roles. This is a normal question in all but the most dysfunctional companies.

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Agreed. As a manager, I’m acutely aware that you are working here because we pay you. So am I. We can talk about non-financial benefits and how we’re making customers’ lives better, but at the end of the day, if I stop paying you, you’ll quickly stop working.

Why there’s so much taboo/avoidance of talking about money I have no idea, but if you need some information to contemplate a career change in our company, I’ll do my best to get it for you.

In many big corps, managers, or more accurately, middle managers, do not completely understand how level compensations work. At the end of the day, they manage people, but they have little control over wages, which are determined by other managers and non human factors.

I'm guessing it is done that way so there is little room for favouritism and/or nepotism.

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