Be prepared to explain why you pay some employees more

Chances are, you don’t pay everyone who performs the same job exactly the same amount of money. You may, for example, have negotiated a higher rate of pay for a new employee to fill a critical shortage. Or you may pay less to recently hired employees than those loyal workers who have been with you for several years. Those are all valid and defensible reasons. That doesn’t mean, however, that you won’t be sued under the Equal Pay Act ...