Band C here... I was just informed I qualified for a 2.5% salary increase based on a market, performance and internal equity review. In speaking with my colleagues, It appears only woman of color got the increases and the merit must be IDE influenced.
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Are we sure they were underpaid systemically, or perhaps they were paid what they earned? This is likely tied to a retention strategy as hiring new IDE talent is difficult. All companies doing their best to not be under-represented in the minority space. Diversity is important, but some of this is to make sure company doesn't end up on cover of Wall Street Journal some day.
Get what you can out of this greedy company . Congratulations! Eventually we’ll all be run out or so burned out in 1-2 years in claims anyways that we’ll quit .
So is it fair to say the company underpaid the women of color were to begin with? Hence the internal equity catchphrase. Or is it fair to say that no one else is performing to a level to deserve a mid year increase.
- 5% on let’s say 60k is 1500 a year. Every dollar counts. But After taxes, it’s less than a hundred a month. You pick the salary, but I think you get the point. It’s propaganda versus real internal equity
Let me guess… In Allstate’s eyes, “women of color” includes neither Asians nor Hispanics. But hey, why would that matter as long as TW gets his big fat bonus for meeting a goal?
Poor pity me and blame it on color. The old tried and true loser line.
Anyone that gets a raise is cool with me. Could care less gender, race, etc. More money for anyone is good IMO. I don't live in the what have you done for me lately world.
In my opinion, this is a very good thing. I just don’t see how they could use all 3 of those metrics and only give raises to women of color. Also, I would bet that 2.5% isn’t enough. To me this is good news but not enough. I wasn’t affected by this change personally and don’t think I should have been but would have loved to see 10-15% increases for women of color.
Only direct reports I have it of 15 that are getting increases are the 4 women of color.
I can’t say for sure if the increases were heavyly weighted on ‘internal equity’, but all my direct reports that received increases were woman of color. Yes, the speaking points given for the increase were market, performance AND internal equity so this was not the typical off cycle increase. So let’s say the increases were only given to women of color, is it a bad thing? Thoughts?
Not surprised to see the people here throwing this around appear to be functionally illiterate.
They give off cycle merit for performance but nobody would ever say it's because you are an African American woman. Get this nonsense put of here
Been going on for awhile. It’s just not noticed much outside of Chicago and Texas. It’s for the grunts not the executives. Sorry HR. Get out of here. Girl you known it’s true. Hahahahaha. It’s called crumb throwing.
Based on your narrow, anecdotal at best scientific study you've determined that only women of color got off cycle merit increases?
Get out of here with this garbage. This is how rumors start and tensions raise. There are already enough perfectly legitimate, verifiable reasons to be upset without this.
What department?