Inside Google's Policy To Pay Unfairly

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The article “Inside Google’s policy to ‘pay unfairly’ ” by Richard Feloni explains that while most companies compensate based on title and tenure, Google instead focuses on merit. This perspective enables high-performing lower ranked employees to earn significantly more than senior employees and may also result in disparate pay among peers. Laszlo Bock, Google’s Senior Vice-President of People Operations in 2006, supports the company’s decision with findings from a 2012 study. The findings portray employee input to output as a power law distribution curve, a steep downward L-shaped slope, with the top 1% of employees creating 10 times more than the average. Google identifies and rewards these top contributors much like a professional baseball