[ankushnarula]

These aren’t factory line workers — these are highly compensated “employment at will” knowledge workers at one of the most prestigious employers in the world. With Apple on your resume, you can likely apply for a job at many firms who will compensate you much more than Apple. A typical skilled knowledge worker who feels underpaid would look for opportunities elsewhere and either leave or leverage an offer for a raise —- unless of course they were not really skilled and/or they had other motivations.

Also, these demands for pay equity from knowledge workers (and their leaks to tech media activists) will almost certainly incentivize and drive employers to increase hierarchies and divisions in their organizational structures. Can you legitimately complain about pay equity when your job is unlike anyone else’s job in the org chart?

[ecnahc515]

Not everyone at Apple is a high compensated IC. A lot of them are retail workers.

[muricula]

You have to learn what your skills are worth by asking others.

It doesn't make a difference if you're "at will" or factory line or whatever.

[emptyparadise]

What's wrong with knowing how much people around you are getting paid?

[bastawhiz]

You shouldn't need to be unhappy with your salary to expect to be treated fairly relative to your peers.

Arguing that jobs are different is moot. Even two very different jobs for the same title with the same tenure are in the same rough ballpark. It's not a justification that it should be impossible to get the data.