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The problem is that everyone thinks they can have individual salary levels. For many industries it was/is common that salaries are equal across groups. Good performance can lead to a higher bonus and make you move up the ranks but there was no discrimination for people in the same position. Unions enforced that and everyone could see their potential salary.

Maybe introducing those salaries would be a benefit for both employees and employers.

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Though this would mean, if I'm trying to hire a developer and their salary requirement is 1000 more than the set band, I either have to employ them at a level too high and pay them more than I budgeted, or not hire them at all even though I could afford the additional 1000 and they were a good fit. I really dislike inflexibility like that. Do some employees get a bit on an unfair deal if they don't negotiate? Yes, they do, but who really cares, as long as they are happy? I much prefer being in the dark about others pay and being able to negotiate terms of employment than shoehorning everyone into the same mold.