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Is it unethical to lie about a previous hourly wage if it increases a current offer?

I transferred to a different location with my company, and from corporate to a franchise so they don’t have access to this information anyway. They initially wanted to start me with a dollar increase from the wage I told them I was being paid- which was actually inflated a bit, but I was able to get a few dollars more than that original offer. Part of me thinks I wouldn’t have gotten as much for this new offer if they knew my previous wage wasn’t as much. Was this unethical? Could I get in trouble if they somehow found out?


I transferred to a different location with my company, and from corporate to a franchise so they don’t have access to this information anyway. They initially wanted to start me with a dollar increase from the wage I told them I was being paid- which was actually inflated a bit, but I was able to get a few dollars more than that original offer. Part of me thinks I wouldn’t have gotten as much for this new offer if they knew my previous wage wasn’t as much. Was this unethical? Could I get in trouble if they somehow found out?

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