re: WWTOTD: Your job pays you more than they're supposed to accidentally

It does not appear that the coworker knew that what she was receiving was greater than she was supposed to get. While I can understand if the employer reduces her wages back to what was the proper wage, I think it would be unnecessarily harsh to require her to pay back any previous overpayment or reduce her upcoming checks until they're even. She is innocent in the matter and probably jumped for joy when she saw her raise. May even have made a big purchase in reliance on it.

I join a lot of the others, here, though in saying that once she realized that the raise was too great, it was in her best interest to inform the employer of the discovery.