Ok, here's my 2p.
First of all, you say it was a big pay rise for you to move to this job, so you haven't 'lost out'.
There must have been a reason the company did the survey and for your boss to tell you that you are the best PA and the lowest paid, including in on a lower salary than your predecessor perhaps wasn't the best way of handling things, especially as they don't seem to be in a position to offer you an increase to balance things out straight away.
So, I would sit tight and wait and see what they offer. (They may have felt, when employing you, that to add another £3-4k onto the offer would maybe seem too much of a jump in salary for you and that they would look at it once you'd been there a while, which looks like what they're doing).
Hopefully they will offer something close to what you would now expect to be receiving - possibly even a little more! - I've just re-read what you said about unlikely to be close to the £4k to the nearest PA salary.
I would still sit tight and see what they offer. However, you are now armed with some inside information and you need to be careful in how you use this to negotiate your pay deal, if you don't like their offer.
Keep us posted!
Jackie, Peer Moderator
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