Salary transparency is especially helpful for knowing if you got a bad or good deal in comparison to your peers. I had a peer who was doing the same work as me

Salary transparency is especially helpful for knowing if you got a bad or good deal in comparison to your peers. I had a peer who was doing the same work as me early in my career and I found out they were paid 2x less, so I helped coach them to ask for a market adjustment and they easily got it. Not only was it demoralizing for them hearing how much I was paid when we shared, but seeing how happy they were after they got what they asked for is something I’ll never forget. What ruins it for everyone is when people go to LinkedIn to be “radically transparent”(aka brag online) about their 500k USD total comp package in SV. Not only is it fairly rare, you also have to gamify your career to get there.