'My company hires for $18K more than my salary': Redditor calls out company after finding his own job listed for higher pay

We've all heard bosses cry "tight budgets" when appraisal time rolls around, yet companies keep going on hiring fresh faces for big bucks.It's pure frustration when loyal workers grind for years, only to watch newbies snag better pay for the same gig or get laid off.

Similar tales often go viral on social media, exposing how firms prioritise cheap retention over fair rewards.

Clear indifference - the company hires new employees and pays them a lot more!

A logistics coordinator at an Ohio distribution company shared his story on Reddit in a post titled, ‘Found out my company is hiring for my exact position at $18k more than what I make’. He'd been there nearly three years, starting at $42,000 and scraping to $45,000 last year “after basically begging for a raise.”

“They told me the budget was tight and that was the best they could do,” the Redditor wrote.Browsing jobs to help a friend, he searched his firm on Indeed and froze. His role showed a pay of $60,000–$63,000, that too for identical duties. “I literally do the exact job they're advertising,” he fumed.

Redditor confronts his manager

He calmly confronted his manager but got stonewalled. “He got all defensive, saying ‘that’s the market rate for new hires’ and ‘we can’t adjust everyone’s salary every time we post a new position.’”

“Like what?? So you’re telling me someone walking in off the street with zero knowledge of our systems is worth $15K more than me, who literally trained the last two people in this role?” the OP vented.Fed up, he declared, “I have money saved up in case something like this happened, but I didn’t think it would actually be this bad. I'm done. I have already updated my resume and I'm applying to every competitor in the area. If they can pay someone else 63k to do my job, they can figure it out when I leave.”

Redditors weigh in, citing similar experiences

The post exploded, with users sharing similar stories. One recalled, “A similar thing happened at my job years ago. They told us for two years they couldn't afford any raises, then they hired a new guy to do the same job as the rest of us, and we found out he was getting almost 20k more than everyone else.When we confronted them, they hemmed and hawed, but nothing happened until I quit, and they suddenly had the cash to give me a big raise.

Best thing to do is get out of there as soon as it's feasible.”Another wrote, “This is why wage comparisons are important. The last company I worked for was hiring new hires for $23/hour while there were guys there working the same exact job for $17/hour… just because they joined earlier when the pay was less.Eventually, they had to scale everyone’s pay up to stop the complaints and people quitting.” A third wrote, “This behavior is widespread. Companies will not reward loyal employees and will pay new ones more, even if they need to be trained for half the year.”