I like sharing my salary just to be open about what I make and give people something to (possibly) work for. The reasons in the NYT article don’t really apply t

I like sharing my salary just to be open about what I make and give people something to (possibly) work for. The reasons in the NYT article don’t really apply to my gig directly as it is a government job with a rigid tiered payscale based on years in practice, but many of my peers just do not get how much they can make in pretty cool government legal jobs. I do not make a ton - just a smidge over that magical six-figure mark, but I have too many friends who are much smarter than I earning far, far less. That saddens me a little bit, and government legal work has an odd reputation for having poor compensation, which is just not the case. On the other side of the coin: when I was a law clerk I accidentally was given a pay-stub for another clerk. Said clerk was notoriously incompetant, but somehow making almost double what many other clerks were making. I said something to our senior administrator, and he did not even know why she was making so much. Likely, when she was hired a judge asked for her to start at her salary and she started there. Her contract was running out and she ended up not being re-hired. I felt like a jerk, and that was not my intention, but had I not known her salary nothing would have happened. Or if I could have kept my mouth shut, but that is difficult when I see such pay disparities. edit: grammar