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Originally Posted by burntsunshine
That’s that mean, even if I’m interested to further in leadership or teaching track, I’ll not be able to do so cause of my starting point? Feels like I’m doing so much more than required to just prove myself? I don’t know, feeling quite burnout, though I love what I do.
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It is still possible to move further into leadership or teaching track for sure. That one is about potential and capability, regardless of starting point. Just that your pay gap from the start, is already apparent. So in order to catch up, you just take longer (understandably) as compared to a degree holder with similar or slighly lower potential than you.
E.g. currently my position and someone else in the same position, the pay differs by about 1+k. I am a degree holder, 14YOE. The other person currently is 25YOE, she was a dip holder who after that went for adv dip in
NIE, and subsequently crossover programme to finish as degree (only after about 10 YOE). So you can tell even after she got emplaced onto degree at 10YOE, there is still a pay gap somehow, albeit the gap may be smaller by a bit because over the years my MI etc would have also been higher than her.
Anyway, regardless, still not comparable to outside sectors. So I'm not staying in service or my position just for the pay anyway. There's still impact that I feel I can deliver at my age.
But yup I agree. One of the flaws of civil service is this pay gap between dip and degree, and the difficulty to catch up as compared to outside sectors.