New employee earning more than me

lucylucky

BAFE wrote: »

Do you honestly think his employers would have paid him £21,000 per annum for the last 3 years if he wasn't very good at his job?

Maybe his boss is not very good at his job either?;)

DKLS

I wish this subject would become a sticky, I have often encountered people performing the same tasks on widely varying salaries. At annual review time, some staff members would get the bare minimum in pay rises, the ones who came to review with evidence that they accomplished x or Y, increased profitability, or had under taken further study to improve their offering and skillset etc would receive much higher payrises.

I would suggest if you havent had a decent rise in the past 3 years its time to move on.

Andy_L

BAFE wrote: »

salary secrecy isn't allowed in the public sector/QUOTE]

For the normal rank & file it is (anybody under £100k IIRC), ie nobody can find out what my (NHS) salary is unless, as already mentioned, its for an equal pay claim.

MarkLS12

lucylucky wrote: »

Of course since the OPs concerns are predicated on nothing but mere speculation maybe they should do nothing.;)

I agree.

In addition to the point made by others that the new joiner may have a tax free allowance since April which is unused so he may be paying less tax at the moment, there is also pension contributions to consider.
As a new joiner he will probably not set up for pension deductions yet, which the OP probably will be.

The OP does not know how much the new joiner is being paid.

BexInLondon

New joined may not be paying back his student loan yet!

Or, as someone else suggested, he might have negotiated hard when he was hired - perhaps highlighting his HUGE travel costs!