It's Wednesday, and this is the Ramsey Call of the Day.

Part of the Ramsey Network.

Joining me today is Ramsey Personality, Ken Coleman.

All right, today's question comes from Maddie in Wisconsin.

I'm 24 years old, and I started my current job back in March 2020.

I started as part-time at $16 an hour, which was perfectly okay.

Then in August, I became full-time. In my first week of full-time, one of my coworkers

told me he makes $18 an hour. I feel I'm being compensated unfairly and don't know how to

handle it. I have a lot more responsibility than this coworker who is very lazy and messes up a lot.

Wow, Dave.

So this is tough because there's psychology involved here.

You know, you go in and you know what you're making and all of a sudden you find out a

coworker has more money that's coming in per hour and you begin to do the comparison.

And I'm not saying that,

Maddie, that this coworker isn't more lazy or isn't messing up all the time. But the reality is,

is you can't focus on what he's being paid. You've got to focus on you. And this is a very tough

thing because, again, you've kind of got to sticking in your head. And you can't allow that

voice to say that they value this

person more than you. They might. But it could be a story that you don't have the details on and you

don't need to know. And they didn't tell you. But you found out because that person was irresponsible

and talked about what they make in the workplace. What you've got to focus on is, does this opportunity

that you have right now, does it allow you to be on the workplace. What you've got to focus on is, does this opportunity that you have

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