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by Broken_Hippo 1738 days ago
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If someone outperforms another person, you have to be able to prove that with numbers. Being upfront about pay does mean that you are upfront about pay differences. For example: Alex has a higher degree or more experience, Robin tends to be finished before the last minute.

Things like job performance are harder to measure unless folks are put in very similar situations. For example, if you measure a cashier's performance by the number of customers they serve, the overnight cashier is almost always going to perform badly simply because there are fewer customers at night.

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How do you measure better soft skills which are crucial at any kind of a leadership role? Almost no jobs are easily measurable by output, we are not working assembly lines.