I recently got a promotion to 'engineer' from a 'junior engineer', salary got increased to £35k from £30k A new guy recently started as 'junior engineer' but have found out his on £35k, the same as me. My new contract says I'm above them and can assign work to them (junior engineers) etc I want to raise this with my manager but have few issues 1) Is discussing pay with each other a gross misconduct offense etc? contract letter says 'strictly confidential' on it as don't want to get in trouble if I raise it with him. 2) Should I expect to be paid more than someone lower than me legally or can they do what they want? 3) Best way to bring this issue up? don't want to sound like I'm demanding an increase but doesn't seem fair. Any opinions on this would be most welcome! thanks