{"id":45390,"date":"2025-07-29T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45390\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:46:08","slug":"even-ai-tools-like-chatgpt-think-your-employees-should-be-making-more-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45390\/","title":{"rendered":"Even AI tools like ChatGPT think your employees should be making more money"},"content":{"rendered":"

ChatGPT might be a new stakeholder in your salary discussions, according to\u00a0new research<\/a>\u00a0from compensation software company Payscale, which surveyed 1,000 employees and 500 leaders working in compensation.<\/p>\n

Payscale found a growing gap between employer and employee salary expectations, and generative AI tools are contributing to the new norm.<\/p>\n

Eighteen percent of employees are sourcing salary information from AI assistants like ChatGPT. Of those nearly one in five employees turning to a chatbot for insights, 27% say it\u2019s \u201cinflated their expectations\u201d and 38% of employers agree that these tools yield higher salary demands,\u00a0according to the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the fundamental issue is that they\u2019re [employers and employees] looking at the same object through two different lenses,\u201d said Ron Seifert, senior client partner at Korn Ferry<\/a>. \u201cEmployees get anecdotal information, and employers have real data, both internal practices and references as well as external market data.\u201d<\/p>\n

Employers are also armed with insights on how the company approaches pay with other people performing the same job, employee performance data and an employer view of an employee\u2019s potential, and compensation survey data.<\/p>\n

But employees may consult ChatGPT, social media, and websites like Glassdoor or others. Younger employees are also more open with their salary information than older colleagues, and word-of-mouth insights may also impact their impression of comp.<\/p>\n

This dissonance has become a recipe for a growing confidence gap, the study found. While 93% of employers \u201cbelieve their employees trust their pay decisions,\u201d only 69% of employees say they trust their employer\u2019s thinking.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s HR to do?\u00a0\u201cAcknowledge it and be sufficiently empathetic is probably the most important thing,\u201d Seifert said. \u201cYou want to not be defensive and then share the perspective of how we reach our answers as employers on pay decision making, and then just present that in a fairly dispassionate way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seifert told HR Brew it\u2019s safe to assume employees are coming to a comp discussion armed with information, and some of that is probably misinformation. Be ready to receive bloated asks and prepared to explain the work that went into the company\u2019s offer, he suggested.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn employee discussion isn\u2019t going to change an employer\u2019s mind about their practices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Seifert added that, in these conversations, it\u2019s also useful to assess an employee\u2019s motivation for the discussion: Is there another job offer, or is there a personal financial issue? These types of motivations can affect which action might make the most sense for the company and employee.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmployees generally don\u2019t leave for pay unless\u2026[they] get an offer that\u2019s so substantially above where they are, but if it\u2019s 10 or 15%, it\u2019s entertaining and charming up until the moment I need to make a decision about leaving,\u201d he said, suggesting HR leaders or managers work with employees on identifying goals and a plan to achieve them.<\/p>\n

This report was originally published<\/a> by HR Brew<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ChatGPT might be a new stakeholder in your salary discussions, according to\u00a0new research\u00a0from compensation software company Payscale, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,3195,1428,8378,24938,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-45390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-chatgpt","12":"tag-compensation","13":"tag-morning-brew","14":"tag-salaries","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}