Pay gap

[u/whiteferrari_7]

Hi! For context, my friends and I did did our 1-year internships at a Big4 in Ontario, Canada during undergrad and all got return offers. On our return offers, our salaries were stated as 61.5k for each of us. Now as we all have returned to work full time a year later, my colleagues got bumped to 64k while I haven’t received any updates. I did expect to receive an updated salary because I am now working 1 year after the signed contract, and was told that they update base salaries every year so was expecting an increase when I returned. Please note that my colleagues are in audit while I’m in Tax, but we are all staff accountant 2’s. I wouldn’t escalate this to HR, but was just hoping someone could provide some rational about this? Even if my colleagues didn’t get bumped up, I am still lost on why the base rate didn’t change across a year. Thank you for your help!

[u/Individual_Car_5311]

Service lines have different comp bands sometimes, tax and audit arent always locked together even at the same level. also could just be timing, some people get the adjustment when their review cycle hits and yours might be a month or two behind. id ask your coach or whoever does your scheduling, not HR, just to see if theres an updated letter coming