Why am I getting underpaid despite great performance reviews?
High performers can end up stuck near the bottom of their salary band because assigned tasks or leads may be unfairly weighted against them, making their output look lower on paper. This discrepancy makes high-performing employees feel like they are failing despite consistently exceeding expectations.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Checking CRM history and tracking what happens to properties before and after inspections to identify lead manipulation
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“all higher-converting leaks and emergencies appeared to be handled by my manager, while I received properties that had already been serviced, low-probability work, and complicated estimates requiring repeated revisions.”source ↗
“Why was I barely selling?”source ↗
“That is what eventually made everything click for me. I went back through old properties, i also wanted to see why my sales where low... and so i went full detective mode and started checking everything about jobs”source ↗
“At the same time, corporate would obviously see that the estimator was not selling much. So now the estimator looks like the problem. That was the part that frustrated me the most. I spent months thinking I was failing.”source ↗
“I’ve been in my role 4 years, my performance reviews have always been above target rated, I’ve been given awards for my performance- and I’m fairly confident my role I’m being paid on or below 80%.”source ↗
Where this came up
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- 2Why do job listings hide the salary?
- 8Doing senior IT work alone on helpdesk pay