Different organizations have different compensation philosophies and compensation strategies, which results in different tactics. It is hard to say anything with confidence unless we know all the details of each of these two roles, including the context they function in. If we believe that the world is a perfectly fair and just place, then there are probably various compensable factors present in one job that the other lacks (maybe it is higher stress, or has higher standards of performance, or requires a wider array of knowledge). But there is also a lot of ‘noise’ in reality, so there are probably some arbitrary factors that affect the pay also.
Compensation is a complicated topic that everyone has an opinion about and yet which very few people have done any research/reading about.[1] I’ve only read a little bit about it so far. But if you would like to learn a bit more the book Pay, by Kevin F. Hallock is a very good introduction. The review article Compensation, Benefits, and Total Rewards: A Bird’s-Eye (Re)View also gives a decent overview if you’d rather read 20 pages than 200.
Different organizations have different compensation philosophies and compensation strategies, which results in different tactics. It is hard to say anything with confidence unless we know all the details of each of these two roles, including the context they function in. If we believe that the world is a perfectly fair and just place, then there are probably various compensable factors present in one job that the other lacks (maybe it is higher stress, or has higher standards of performance, or requires a wider array of knowledge). But there is also a lot of ‘noise’ in reality, so there are probably some arbitrary factors that affect the pay also.
Compensation is a complicated topic that everyone has an opinion about and yet which very few people have done any research/reading about.[1] I’ve only read a little bit about it so far. But if you would like to learn a bit more the book Pay, by Kevin F. Hallock is a very good introduction. The review article Compensation, Benefits, and Total Rewards: A Bird’s-Eye (Re)View also gives a decent overview if you’d rather read 20 pages than 200.
So in that sense it is similar to raising children, or finding love, or other topics that people have widely varying views on.