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In my company the new hires are usually the worst payed people. We have a scheme that has a base pay and if you fullfill the requirements, additional money is added to the base pay each month. It used loyalty with the company and certifications to determine the addition to the base pay.

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Lol. Loyalty!

Not sure if you are serious, but in case you are: your company is very very special.

The disconnect comes between what market rate is and what actual pay is. If you want to hire people you must offer competitive pay.

Larger, older companies tend to reward loyalty, often the ones that are making single digit annual growth. There's not a lot of new ground to break into, so they don't need the smartest people. They just want to keep the existing money making system from breaking, so the ones who are running it are better rewarded.

It's also because the ones with the most tenure are the ones deciding how pay works.

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