A core philosophy of our Salary System and Compensation Principles is that over time, adjustments we make to refine and improve the approach, or changes we make when we have more resources (see Future Iterations) will benefit everyone at Buffer.

This is reflected in How Salary Negotiation works at Buffer, where we do not allow negotiation to change or impact salary numbers, and instead take on negotiation as a point of feedback.

Put simply, we will never make a change that solely benefits a single person. Any change that results in a change of one or more salaries in the team, will be a change to our salary system and formula itself. Therefore, it will almost always impact several people; specifically it will impact all salaries where the specific change is a factor.