Question is title, I’ve been here for 2 years and received $60,000 upon hire. I now make around $66,000 after my 2nd yearly annual review merit-based raise but I just found out new-hires are now receiving $62,500 as max pay.
I requested upscale and seems they’re denying it and stating my pay is appropriate. Is this normal/legal/appropriate? HR danced around my question and kept saying they can’t disclose others salaries but that’s not what I’m asking.
There was a max pay, I received it, they raised the max pay, my 2 years here now feels undervalued despite my regularly scheduled raises. I feel like it’s a straight forward question but they keep avoiding answering it directly and telling me my pay is appropriate and people get hired at different rates and they can’t disclose that information—but it’s easily viewable online as well it just so happens that a newbie disclosed it to me accidentally.
I escalated it so much I exchanged my first email with the VP of HR when she was CC’d on the last email. I asked her directly via email, “Was the max pay increased?” And “even if you are not at liberty to answer that question would you agree that if max pay was increased and I am aware of it—do you think it’s reasonable for me to request a pay raise?” She hasn’t responded yet, but this was sent yesterday around 2PM.