Salary | Employer 'offers candidate £25k LESS due to age'

A candidate has accused a prospective employer of offering her £25,000 less than her current salary because it would be ‘better aligned to her age’.

Taking to Twitter, user @i0sTalia claimed that the company’s justification for the reduced salary was because they could offer her training and that her “current salary is quite a lot for my age so this would be more aligned.”

Just had a job ring me and tell me that they want to offer me 25k lower than my current salary because they can train me and my current salary is quite alot for my age so this would be more aligned

— Azure (@i0sTaila) January 27, 2020

@i0sTalia explained that when the prospective employer challenged her salary expectation and offered her less it left her second-guessing her abilities and she felt like a “fraud”.