Friend making <38k at a firm for ~4 years. Just found out new hires that she trained with the same job title as her were hired by the company at 25% more pay then her. What should she do?

This is a situation happening to someone close to me, and I’m hoping to help advise her. She has been an assistant at a firm for about 4 years and has been training 2 new hires on how to do their work for the past few months. The new hires have the same job title as her, but are much less experienced. She asked them recently how much they are being paid, and discovered that both were hired at 25% more than she is currently making. I am irate about this. She has a more timid personality and has been sort of resigned to accepting what has been offered to her in the past. To me, this seems like exploitation.

She told her HR person this week she wanted to talk about getting a raise and was told her supervisor would review her and the ownership would get back to her eventually (he subsequently just left for several weeks of vacation before handling this). She deserves probably a 50% raise to make up for the difference plus the fact that she has been there so long already and is essentially supervising them not to mention the money she has been screwed on over the last 4 years.

All that said, I know being demanding and asking too much sometimes backfires and does not ingratiate oneself to management. I’m not sure how she should approach this beyond telling them basically that she knows she’s grossly underpaid and requesting a 50% raise, but I worry that won’t work out. Curious what others here might think about this and how she should
approach the situation.



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