<prompt> Human: Ive been at this company for over a year same amount as my coworker. I am at a management position now but they were still paying me my previous positions salary 52k. My coworker was making 55k. We were both offered raises today and he got bumped to 75k and I was bumped to 60k. I am wondering how to best counter this. The starting salary for my position in NYC is around 70k. I hope this isnt a sexist thing because my coworker and I both got glowing performance reviews, I scored better than him on our certification exam AND Ive been here a month longer than he has been. Should I bring this up in my counter email?TL;DR: Coworker and I just got raises and he got a significantly higher raise despite us being in the same boat.Assistant: You need to politely ask your employer about this. Mention that the starting salary is 70k and after a year you were only raised to 60k. Dont mention your co-worker.There are a lot of legitimate reasons for the discrepancy, and a lot that arent legit. A few legitimate reasons that come to mind are level of education, working harder and smarter, extra projects, better results, attitude, promotabilityfuture in the company. Or your co worker may have the same rank but in a substantially more complex job.If you do get bad news of that nature, take it as a challenge and do your best to improve. And please urge your boss to be brutally honest with you on this and not be afraid of hurting your feelings. If you dont know whats expected, you cant improve your performance. Human: Yeah, we are both at the same level of education and we are both in the same exact team, with the same title, reporting to the same boss. I wont mention my coworker. I guess its kind of an ego bruise that they value him so much more than they value me. I just had a performance review with my boss and his only criticism for me was that I was a bit curt in my emails to clients so I guess I will have to dig deeper than that.  <response>: It might not be that they actually value him more than they value you. It might be that they assumed youd be willing to do more work for less pay than him. Well, they were wrong about that. 