I find it interesting that we can get told multiple times in multiple all hands meetings that they do not look at cost of living increases when determining salary ranges and raises but my coworkers in different cities get paid more than me because of cost of living is higher in their city.
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I agree OP. Completely insane that COLA is not a thing in tech, especially in companies like HPE, that pay well below local market rates. Every other industry I have been in cheerfully gives out raises when inflation eats 30% of people's pay.
All Hands was a poor choice of words, I did not mean the true All Hands with Antonio, I was talking about a few BU "all hands"/Q&A meetings this summer and fall. I specifically remember a question to Trish about inflation and salaries and her brushing it off as "our salaries are competitive and no other companies are raising salaries due to inflation." I get that having salary ranges for different geographic areas is the norm, I just think it is silly that cost of living geographically is such a huge factor in salaries but not overall increase in cost of living over time
I find it interesting that you don’t listen properly in the all hand meetings
there have always been geographic boundaries (Bay Area, LA, NYC. etc..) that have different salary ranges - every company I've worked for has those in place. Your comment about COLA has nothing to do with salary ranges - COLA applies to annual salary increases to stay ahead with inflation and are typically factored if you are unionized or perhaps a gov't employee. HPE nor any public-traded tech company issues salary increases to offset COLA
I love to sh-t on HPE wherever I can, but I'm on all the AllHands meetings, and have never once heard the claim that they do not look at location when determining salary or increases.