My replacement is being paid at a lower grade - WWYD?

[SnowfallSnowball]

Hi all
I am leaving my post at the end of the month and my manager has been unsuccessful in the recruitment so has gone to an agency. It turns out that my manager is recruiting my post at a lower grade but the job stays the same. There are a number of us that do similar jobs and we are at all the same grade but this new person will come in and be paid at the lower grade - there is probably about a £10k difference. I have asked my manager for the justification but it was just a lot of fluff really and not any valid reasoning for it.

I am wondering if I should mention this to the person when they start or just leave it as I will be leaving the organisation anyway and therefore isn't my problem. I just feel bad for them....

I’m presuming the person who got the job knows how much they’re being paid so I’d not say anything tbh

I'd do nothing. None of your business.

I’d leave it be. Presumably the higher grade you were paid at reflects higher qualifications or more on the job experience. If your manager has had trouble filling the job with same qualifications and experience as normally required for that grade, then they can advertise a grade lower with lower qualification and experience requirements with understanding that much of the employees time will include on the job training even though the job stays the sameish

I’d let them know - it’s grossly unfair. Not sure why people would be ok knowingly screwing someone else over, especially the financial difficulties we’re heading into.

I guess it depends on the industry but I would think the lower pay grade could represent the fact that the person will be new to the role and to allow for development, gaining experience and promotions. In all the jobs I've had there would be people with the same title and role but different pay depending on experience and performance.

Let them find out themselves.

I know when I was queried my wage thinking it would help others, I was really mistakenly naive.

My work friend who I thought a lot of, didn't tell me until late she'd had demanded her hours dropped to 25 - now probably paid £10.26 on a 4 day week, with lesser target, never having to work bank holiday Monday..... better manager, had 9 coaching sessions compared to my 3 to be doing better and so isn't the one faced losing their job.

Another work colleague had never been into the office since 'training/induction'.

Both have the benefit of a recuitment agent fighting their contact, I'm on a direct contract and had to query my salary discrepancy on my own.

In another life after helping build the business up a summer when the winter start part timer was on more and demanded I clean the toilets, buy the loo-roll and clean the kettle, do you think she told me the full-timer I was earning less? No I had to find it out by going into the bosses office when he wasn't around, I was looking for something else entirely and got quite a deep shock when I saw the contract. He with no qualms going on to furlough me after all the hard work of 2020...

The agency will be taking a percentage of the salary so that's probably where they"surplus" will go.

Thank you for all your replies so far. I guess having had time to think about it, it's likely they will find out eventually just through conversation with the other colleagues....I guess ultimately it isn't my business! Just a shame really.