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by CardenB 1594 days ago
It seems that they have a chart for pay gap by tenure, which is by years of experience.
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I saw that section. It's weird to me to use tenure here instead of industry experience or level since tenure specifically means how long you've been at the same job.

In my experience in tech, staying at the same company (long-tenured) is the best way to ensure you are underpaid. They seem to allude to that with:

> The “Great Resignation” may present an opportunity for long-tenured, underpaid workers to find competitive pay elsewhere.

If my understanding is correct then that doesn't account for what I'm calling experience or level.

> It seems that they have a chart for pay gap by tenure, which is by years of experience.

Tenure just refers to how long someone has been with a specific company, not how long they've been in the industry.

So it's suggestive of _something_ bad that the pay gap increases with tenure for many categories of job, but it's not at all conclusive.