<prompt> Human: So for most of 2017 I was on loan to another department in a required non-tech PM position. Previous male Project Manager was paid 75k eight years out of school. I am a woman who made 50k when I started helping 3 years out of school. Was in way over my head, but did all right given the circumstances. Got a promotion and a big raise out of it but begged them to hire someone because the boss and the work were quite literally hell and I threatened to quit hence the promotion and raise. Ended 2017 making close to 59k.They hired a guy with 20 years experience that had nothing to do with our industry and paid him 92k. He was a nice person but absolutely sucked at the job. I trained him for three months but he absolutely floundered. The position got a new, nicer, more reasonable boss during the six months New Guy was there and job got way less stressful. New Guy nonetheless received a terrible review and voluntarily left last month. Once again, I am on loan because I am the only person who knows the intricacies of the job. Only this time I am still doing the normal work in my actual department on top of helping out. The work this time around is much less miserable so I inquired about the job and rate of pay should I accept it. I was told if I took the position full time I would only be paid 65k because I lack the experience to make more than that. By experience they mean number of years of employment history. I am currently four years out of college and have only ever worked at this company. So my current boat is, despite my being the only person at this company that can complete these essential functions, my company wont raise me to the same rate as the two guys that failedleft because they had more years of work experience than me. I know I am being taken advantage of, but I am using the companys student loan program to help me pay off my loans, so if I quit during the year I have to pay back the money the company has paid up until the month I quit. That would come to about 3000 as I am trying t burn thru them this year.My ultimate question is, does PF feel that years of work experience trumps ability to do the job when it comes to pay rates? Any advice for negotiating with my company or are they correct in limiting my pay because of my fewer years work experience?Assistant: I read posts like this all the time, where people get blatantly shafted by the current work and taken advantage of, and the question is always how can I get my company to change their mind?You dont. They will always be assholes if they treat you like this. They are not going to give you a 30000 bump, and if you have some leverage and they end up paying you what they consider significantly more but still less than 30k they will hold it against you or try to replace you.You are expendable. They have demonstrated this to you. They are expendable. Demonstrate this to them.Human: youre right. I like to think my company is the one company in corporate America that is different! but it clearly isnt. It helps to have a bunch of internet strangers confirm it, ha. I love the people I work with, but is that really worth being underpaid by an entity that has already shown theyre not willing to pay me for the work Im doing? Its like, they must value me because I believe they do but reality doesnt always match up with what we wish were true.  <response>: Do the job, put those tasks on your resume, apply elsewhere. The 3000 loans you have to repay will be nothing when you get that 10-20k raise. 