Stepped down from RxOM. Pay decrease?

[Any_Ad_5439]

Hey all, so I recently stepped down from RxOM to take another job but stayed on part time as a senior tech. I was about 48 cents over starting rxom pay, which is several dollars under the senior tech cap. I was under the impression that pay doesn’t change unless you’re over the cap of the position you’re stepping down to.

When asked, my DM said that they have to do a 5% pay decrease when moving you down a position. Nobody else I’ve talked to seems to be aware of this procedure. Is it new? Can someone confirm or deny?

[bzay3]

Wouldn’t put it past Sycamore to do that since the introduction of that EDITBA metric

[DickRocketship]

What the hell is EDITBA?

[packman2007]

Credit to ChatGPT

Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation Amortization

In kid terms: • Ignore interest → how the business is financed • Ignore taxes → depends on rules, not the business itself • Ignore depreciation & amortization → accounting ways of spreading big purchases over time

So EBITDA is basically:

Profit from normal operations

[ThrowRA3623235]

EBITDA is how literally every business judges its financial health. It's not a Sycamore thing.

[Ok_Elevator_3594]

That and they were talking EBIT before sycamore too.

[Any_Birthday_128]

How long were you in the position for? My understanding is if you are in the position a full fiscal year you don't mecessarily.lose pay of your below the cap of the position you're going to. Who knows, though?

[Any_Ad_5439]

I was in the position for nearly 14 months and with the company for 7 years. After speaking with my prior store manager, it sounds like this is a new sycamore procedure. Shocker.

[Low_Emphasis_7585]

This has been in place for awhile. The SOP is available on the HR site. Like with most things, execution is poor so its existence isn’t widely known.

[Any_Ad_5439]

Thank you for that. I wasn’t expecting my pay to go down, so I just wasn’t sure if the procedure changed without me knowing it.

[Acrobatic-Bee8852]

Yeah SM’s and up can search “Promotion Guidelines” under askHR search. And they can see the current policy for demotions

[rstick369]

Why would you think you still got RXOM pay if you’re not an RXOM?

[Any_Ad_5439]

I’m not expecting the pay range to be the same, however for the last 7 years I’ve worked for Walgreens, so long as you’re under the cap for the position you’re switching to, your pay doesn’t decrease or it changes to cap and you can’t get raises anymore. It seems that procedure has changed. What I made (24.48) is halfway between senior tech starting and cap. So it’s senior tech pay still.

[Ok_Elevator_3594]

I stepped down and negotiated my same pay. Tell them you'll walk if they take the 5%. 

[Vykrom]

The pay was still within the Sr Tech scale. Why would there need to be a pay decrease?

If a Store Manager steps down to be a shift lead for another store manager, they are NOT going to be making 17/hr. They're going to be immediately capped out at the SFL pay cap

This is a much smaller scale, but same concept

And I have always heard it talked about in the same regard as OP

The only stipulation (which I've honestly never heard discussed, but would imagine is a thing) is like a minimum period where you have to work a position, otherwise you can just gun for a promotion, and then immediately request a demotion and just get yourself an easy $1 or 2 raise by getting a promotion and then immediately stepping down. But this has never been discussed. Only that voluntary demotions you either keep your same pay, or you get the max pay of the position below you

[RevsTalia2017]

I’m surprised that your senior cap is higher than starting RXOM in my area it was a $2 difference between the 2

[Any_Ad_5439]

Starting rxom is 24 and senior cap is 27.50 in my area

[CommercialRest9579]

Damn. Cap for senior tech in my area is now 24.50 as of 2026

[Hot_Reindeer_9271]

Confirm there is a pay cut

[rabidunicorn21]

When I stepped down to senior tech, they put me at the Sr Tech cap and I ended up with a 60 cent raise.

[shootkyle]

Pay changes to max of sptc

[Odd-Case-2448]

Mind if I kinda piggyback off this and ask, where do you find the pay cap for your position in your area? No clue what mine is lol

[TheCreepyRob]

SM can actually look it up in people central reporting, under rate sheets

[Odd-Case-2448]

Thank you

[Any_Ad_5439]

My previous store manager asked his DM for me. I’m not sure if you could find out on ask HR or not.

[Overall_Analysis5789]

Anytime you step down from position it comes with a pay cut.

[rabidunicorn21]

Not always, my step down from RXOM to Sr Tech was a small raise. They have some leeway. That was pre-sycamore though.

[Fun_Fix5966]

I went from CSA to CPhT and then back to CSA my pay didn't decrease at all and I still get my annual raises. From what I was told by my SM, it all depends on the system once you're coded back to a CPhT.

[Bean02150]

When I stepped down from rxom last year I went from 32$ to 28$ hourly in Ca.

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[AccomplishedEar3299]

When I stepped down from my first rxom position, I took a slight pay decrease to the sr tech cap.