I feel when people can see what they’re getting paid relative to close colleagues (especially if you include data from multiple countries and/or cities) a lot o

I feel when people can see what they’re getting paid relative to close colleagues (especially if you include data from multiple countries and/or cities) a lot of people won’t be happy. In theory we all know the engineers working for the office in the more expensive cities get paid more but seeing that on paper will cause a lot of animosity. I also know for example my company pays employees in similar cost of living cities differently because the local market is less competitive in one. Again, wouldn’t be good to see on paper. Also, I think this idea that knowing what colleagues are paid improves your negotiating position is wrong. It’s much more important to figure out what competitors will pay you. Transparency data can be useful for preventing discrimination but that should be left up to the state to monitor.