Are these “base increases”

As someone that has been in a position to award salary increases for many years at Amgen, I can tell you, at least in my experience, that there is no difference in pay between men/women or minorities/whites. The difference in base salaries is due to many factors including experience and most of all, results. Historically, we used to award the highest increases to those that performed the best. In the field, this is very objective. You either deliver results or you don't. If you consistently delivered results in the top tier, you used to be given larger increases in pay. Over time, this results in high achievers having higher salaries than low achievers. It has nothing to do with race or gender. In fact, many of my highest achievers and highest paid field personnel have been women and minorities. That is in the past. Amgen has adopted a new, socialistic way of awarding "base salary increases." They are no longer called merit increases, because it has nothing to do with merit. Amgen has decided that everyone doing the same job regardless of performance or experience should be paid the same. So if you are a highly paid, high performer (minority, white, woman, man, transgender, etc) you will get lower increases than your low performing peers. Ultimately, this will lead to high performers leaving and low performers staying. You still like this policy?

 

You are one person with one team. Amgen has 20,000 employees. Your experience is not reflective. Talent (Women and Minorities) have been leaving in droves for much higher positions because of biased compensation and promotion practices. If individuals that continually “overperform” (i.e., due to biased managers) leave and make way for diverse talent to enter the organization, that benefits Amgen.

PharMa report: Companies with more diverse workforces financially outperform their peers.

 

We need to hire on merit, not race.

If we are honest about it, we should be 95% Asian, 4% white and 1% other

 

Thanks again. It is just ridiculous that this happens. I know of someone who barely got meets and got a much higher raise than I did.

I will disagree with you on one matter, I didn't create this. I've been here 3 years and see what a mess it is here. The true talent are not rewarded. It's all about the suck ups here. There's someone in my district who doesn't leave their house and they get the accolades and promotions and money. The mgr likes this person as does the rsd.

if you are not loved and don't suck up, I'm finding that doing your job well doesn't matter much here. It's not really about sales. the 50% b.s . about ratings based on behaviors is wrong too as managers can again score you poorly if they don't like you. 3 years of this and it's getting worse here. now you also don't get hired based on your merits. we all know what's happening there.

 

I actually think this is true and believe you and it's wrong.

 

You are wrong. I had the best numbers and the manager just didn't like that I pushed back on his/her craziness and bullying tactics. My numbers were the 2nd highest in the district.

 

You're an idiot. There is nothing that substantiates that notion.

 

Blanco Ivy League WASP are the best

All others are several rungs below.

Make
Amgen
Great
Again

 

Idiot

 

heil

 

Don't you worry about titles and raises, Merck will take it from here.

 

Toke much....he he he