re: Have any of you ever found out how much $ a co-worker makes?

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I accidentally got a file with a bunch of salaries sent to me and everything was exactly what I expected.

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that is typically the case....the only outlier is generally what companies have to pay new employees versus existing....new folks start out at what tenured employees took 15 years to achieve.

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Ive been working with them a few months and the Employee is totally inept and come to find out they started them out making 20k more than I currently do. I have no idea how they sold them selves as being that valuable to the company. I’ve been their almost 10 years.

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I noticed the same thing.

I just recently started at a new company on Monday. I was doing well for myself but got a call from another company and decided to listen since I wasn’t all that aware of my market to be honest.

Ended up offering me better benefits and a $15K raise. Love my new position and can’t believe I hadn’t looked around sooner.

Sometimes I think we get complacent in the positions we’re already in since it seems stable to us. Definitely learned a life lesson over the last few weeks.

Yes OP, and like you, it really had a negative impact on me. I eventually got past the anger, asked for a raise... was told there wasn’t anything they could do. So I had to change my attitude or change my job, I did both.

At my next job, one of the first documents I saw was everyone’s pay rate

It sounds like you may already be unhappy where you are and this didn’t help. Life’s too short to be unhappy at a job you go to 5 days a week

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Have any of you ever found out how much $ a co-worker makes?

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Yes, and it inspired me to successfully demand a promotion.

I was in college and got a temp, part-time job doing bitch work (paperwork, phone calls, etc.) for a computer repair company. They were short-staffed (including an empty supervisor position) and just needed someone for busy times. Since I was temp and I really needed the job I did everything I could to prove my value to the company, which meant finishing my responsibilities as quickly as possible and then assisting with the repairs to show how capable I am. Over time they came to rely on my help.

At the end of the busy season they decided to keep me on permanently but still part time, and they hired a permanent supervisor. They passed over the most senior guy in the department and hired from outside, which pissed off a lot of people who then quit during a time in which we were already pretty short staffed.

I wasn't there that long and already found myself in a position of seniority as we hired new people, but soon after discussing pay with coworkers one day, I realized I had taken on way too many responsibilities for my job code and the company came to rely on it. I was training people and being made partially responsible for people who made more than I did.

I met with my manager and explained to him that over the last few months my job responsibilities had changed to a point where I had become responsible for things far outside of the scope of my job code, and I requested to be recoded, given the raise, and since the job code change would be based on past action, compensate me for the past few months in increased pay.

He balked at my request but punted me to his manager. I explained to him that I was personally invested in the work I was doing, that I have always gone above and beyond in everything that I do, which led to so many responsibilities being put on me, but I accept it because I want to move up in the company, but at this point my position has changed and I should be compensated for it, especially when I'm stuck part time and barely have enough money to eat and have to make tough financial decisions in the days before payday.

I left with a new job title, a $3 raise, guaranteed full time hours, and benefits including health coverage and eligibility for my college tuition to be reimbursed by the company if I am in good academic standing

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After speaking awhile, it almost shocked the big wigs when I said we should not expect our loyal employees to stick it out at lower wages than what new employees are being paid. Heads started spinning after that.

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we have started doing "equity adjustments" from time to time to keep things in order...starting salaries are rising so fast, they will pass up the more experienced folks if you don't do something.

Yeah been there. Trained a guy once who started out making more than me.
Its not the employees fault so I went to my boss. He informed me that he can fire me for talking about money. I informed him that his life was going to get very chaotic without me. I got a promotion with a life changing 25k a year raise.

It was a gamble. I got lucky my boss is a cool guy

Tenured employees always get focked and taken advantage of by their companies.
Usually, there is little to no reward to productive tenured employees which is why there should be NO loyalty to the company.
Fock them. Move on and get ahead.

Since I work for FedGov it's pretty easy.

If you know your co-worker's GS level and step you can look it up.

Years ago when I was First out of college, I worked For a large agricultural company. I had Been working there about 3 years and was even going to lsu on recruitment day to talk to potential candidates.
Well anyway we offer this candidate and he accepts. A few months later as a was leaving the office late on night I found a opened envelope in the hallway. My instincts told me not to but I couldn’t resist.
The new kid was making the same salary as myself and i was there 3-4 years. I started updating my resume.