[pjc50]

How often do you encounter people with exactly identical skills and experience?

For that matter, how often do you know what your colleagues get paid? I'm used to environments where everyone is paid differently for essentially arbitrary reasons.

[swarnie_]

I've worked in environments where 6-8 people in a team have largely similar skill sets and all shared wage info. Not much difference besides how many end of year pay reviews they had stuck around to see.

My experience is personal and anecdotal so largely meaningless by itself hence the question to a wider audience