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At Buffer (my day job) our salaries are open and transparent so I can just say what I make, which is about $155 after bonuses and profit sharing. So for opport

At Buffer (my day job) our salaries are open and transparent so I can just say what I make, which is about $155 after bonuses and profit sharing. So for opportunity cost, I’m kinda thinking about the apps I could’ve shipped or have worked towards in that time. In many ways, I was just hitting my stride and figuring out a lot about the business side of app development when I embarked on this project. So, I’m giving up shipping apps to “ship” the book, and that has been the hardest part for me.

elil17 4y ago
FYI if you’re in the US you have a legal right to say what you make, regardless of whether your workplace has pay transparency.
- cinntaile 4y ago
  Do you mean there exist places in the world where you can't legally tell someone else what you earn?
  - d_watt 4y ago
    You having a legal right to discuss pay means your companies can't prevent it, and you could sue for wrongful termination if they fired you for it. This is as opposed to the government having no opinion, and a company could fire you for discussing it, with that act still being legal.
    - elil17 4y ago
      Bingo
oneoff786 4y ago
Ah so you did your day job too That makes sense
alpha_squared 4y ago
Huge shout-out to Buffer for their pay transparency! I know that's a complete aside from your comment, but I really admire their pay transparency and continually evolving formula on pay. My partner is doing her dissertation on pay transparency as a recruitment tool and Buffer's model was an inspiration for the study.
- sitkack 4y ago
  I would love to know more about this in relation to coops and democratic companies. In a 60 second spike https://hbr.org/2016/09/the-case-against-pay-transparency https://hbr.org/2016/09/the-case-against-pay-transparency (:face-palm-cringey-emjoi:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan in the eponymous West Virginia pay transparency law. Excellent book. https://trackbill.com/bill/west-virginia-house-bill-4428-katherine-johnson-and-dorothy-vaughan-fair-pay-act-of-2020/1852183/ https://trackbill.com/bill/west-virginia-house-bill-4428-kat... Buffer ranks high in the search results. They are definitely a leader in SEO on this subject. Keeping salaries private is a huge arbitrage advantage for the corporation. At work, when discuss compensation, I will openly and freely disclose my total comp. As a senior persion, this has shined a huge light in vast sea of darkness. The autofaq for this search is interesting. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pay%20transparency https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pay%20transparency
  - trinsic2 4y ago
    I'm a sheltered child when it comes to the work world since I have been an independent computer service professional since 2009. I read the case against pay transparency and wondered what your thoughts were on that subject. Because you facepalmed (BTW I wonder if there is a way to render emoji's in between colons). I see the problem the author is presenting. Not as an issue of it shouldnt be done, but more along the lines of, is the world really ready for it? BTW I am a big supporter of transparency. I just never thought about in in the aspects of compensation.
    - sitkack 4y ago

elil17 4y ago

FYI if you’re in the US you have a legal right to say what you make, regardless of whether your workplace has pay transparency.

cinntaile 4y ago
Do you mean there exist places in the world where you can't legally tell someone else what you earn?
- d_watt 4y ago
  You having a legal right to discuss pay means your companies can't prevent it, and you could sue for wrongful termination if they fired you for it. This is as opposed to the government having no opinion, and a company could fire you for discussing it, with that act still being legal.
  - elil17 4y ago
    Bingo

oneoff786 4y ago

Ah so you did your day job too That makes sense

alpha_squared 4y ago

Huge shout-out to Buffer for their pay transparency! I know that's a complete aside from your comment, but I really admire their pay transparency and continually evolving formula on pay. My partner is doing her dissertation on pay transparency as a recruitment tool and Buffer's model was an inspiration for the study.

sitkack 4y ago
I would love to know more about this in relation to coops and democratic companies. In a 60 second spike https://hbr.org/2016/09/the-case-against-pay-transparency https://hbr.org/2016/09/the-case-against-pay-transparency (:face-palm-cringey-emjoi:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan in the eponymous West Virginia pay transparency law. Excellent book. https://trackbill.com/bill/west-virginia-house-bill-4428-katherine-johnson-and-dorothy-vaughan-fair-pay-act-of-2020/1852183/ https://trackbill.com/bill/west-virginia-house-bill-4428-kat... Buffer ranks high in the search results. They are definitely a leader in SEO on this subject. Keeping salaries private is a huge arbitrage advantage for the corporation. At work, when discuss compensation, I will openly and freely disclose my total comp. As a senior persion, this has shined a huge light in vast sea of darkness. The autofaq for this search is interesting. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pay%20transparency https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pay%20transparency
- trinsic2 4y ago
  I'm a sheltered child when it comes to the work world since I have been an independent computer service professional since 2009. I read the case against pay transparency and wondered what your thoughts were on that subject. Because you facepalmed (BTW I wonder if there is a way to render emoji's in between colons). I see the problem the author is presenting. Not as an issue of it shouldnt be done, but more along the lines of, is the world really ready for it? BTW I am a big supporter of transparency. I just never thought about in in the aspects of compensation.
  - sitkack 4y ago