Given the comments in this thread, it seems this is an insanely difficult concept to grasp. It&#x27;s like the notion just bounces off Teflon.<p>But ... but ... but John is working 60 hours a week for his $60K, and Jane puts her foot down and doesn&#x27;t work more than 40 hours! She&#x27;s not as <i>committed</i>! She doesn&#x27;t <i>want it</i> badly enough! She doesn&#x27;t <i>deserve</i> to be paid $60K when she&#x27;s working 20 hours less!<p>So Jane gets punished because John is a dumbass who lets the company steal 20 hours of unpaid additional labor. Can&#x27;t have John thinking about that, though, so Jane gets a pay cut because she&#x27;s not &quot;working as hard&quot; as John.<p>But ... but ... but John just negotiated better&#x2F;harder&#x2F;longer&#x2F;more successfully! It&#x27;s Jane&#x27;s fault she&#x27;s paid less. She&#x27;s just poor at negotiations.<p>Bullshit. If ever there was a reason to eliminate salary negotiations, this is one of the stronger cases. Just fucking pay a set wage for each position in the company. Make it known. Enjoy there being no wage tension or envy in the workplace. Be proud you&#x27;ve eliminated any chance that your team members could even entertain the notion you weren&#x27;t valuing them equally and fairly.<p>Oh, wait. That&#x27;s stupid. Instead, let&#x27;s argue about just <i>exactly how much</i> less women are paid—but as a whole, cos it&#x27;s really nasty when we start breaking the pay gap down by ethnicity. Cos it&#x27;s so productive to argue about the rules for quantifying the pay gap than it is to just start and stop at the simple rule that <i>there shouldn&#x27;t fucking be one</i>.