The smaller income does not make a person’s time less valuable.

Rates of pay quietly become a ranking of people. Whoever earns less gets asked to travel further, wait longer and rearrange their day, on an unspoken assumption that their hours cost less to spend. Income measures a job market, not the worth of somebody’s afternoon. Their evening is as finite as anyone else’s.

Notice whose time you routinely treat as flexible and ask whether pay is doing the deciding. Offer the same notice, the same punctuality and the same thanks to everybody in your week.