<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Even if they think their employees couldn&amp;#x27;t find more money somewhere else, &amp;quot;We had a great year and you get an effective pay cut due to inflation&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t going to inspire people to work hard even if they don&amp;#x27;t quit over it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Hippocrates</author><text>They are right to be mad, but Nadella did cite “the labor market” as one factor in the pay freeze. That’s another way of saying “we won’t pay you more because we don’t need to”&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day I don’t think the justification or excuse is important. It’s a “vote with your feet” scenario.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pay-frozen Microsofties not happy to hear of &apos;landmark year&apos;</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/pay_freeze_microsoft_landmark_year/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mathattack</author><text>That’s exactly it.  They won’t raise salaries if Google and Microsoft aren’t in a rush to hire their top engineers anymore.  They will when those companies are.&lt;p&gt;Companies rarely pay based on contribution. They pay based on what it takes to keep someone from hiring you away.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Hippocrates</author><text>They are right to be mad, but Nadella did cite “the labor market” as one factor in the pay freeze. That’s another way of saying “we won’t pay you more because we don’t need to”&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day I don’t think the justification or excuse is important. It’s a “vote with your feet” scenario.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Pay-frozen Microsofties not happy to hear of &apos;landmark year&apos;</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/pay_freeze_microsoft_landmark_year/</url></story>