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If your employees find out that there is a 50% difference in their salary's for the same official job title I suspect that they are going to be very upset, unless you've been open and clear with them up front. Shrink your salary bands and break this out into different jobs, as a suggestion.

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Does everyone at your company with the same title create the same value? Plenty of people at my office with the same title create double or triple the value.

Yes those discrepancies exist. But they are almost always a result of imperfect information at hiring. No one hired 2 people into the same role assuming that one would only be half as productive as the average and one would be 2x more productive. Had they known that going in they would have hired them into different positions or at least different levels within the same position.

And typically those high performers either get promoted or leave to find higher paying jobs.

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