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Almost as interesting, you can (as I understand it) look up the current salary of anyone you want to. Though in doing so they will be notified that you have don

Almost as interesting, you can (as I understand it) look up the current salary of anyone you want to. Though in doing so they will be notified that you have done so.

diggan 4y ago
They'd be notified that someone looked it up unless you buy the entire full set of data for the entire county / country, as it contains a bunch of people all together then. Also, in the notification they receive, only which service was used will be mentioned and not exactly who did it. So you can still lookup how much your co-workers earn without them knowing you asked for. But generally people are open with how much they earn, so it's really not an issue.
- shafoshaf 4y ago
  If the US could do one thing for race relations, I feel this would be it.
  - filoleg 4y ago
    I feel like you are being a bit too optimistic in terms of what it would lead to. It definitely would do something to race relations, but perhaps not what you wanted, especially in the short term. Hint: it might end up leading to an uptick in antisemitism.
- robin_reala 4y ago
  Buy, or, you know, just go to the library. (I did this after I moved here to check that I wasn’t being drastically underpaid compared to my colleagues. Turns out that I was.)
dagw 4y ago
Though in doing so they will be notified that you have done so. There are companies that download the entire salary database and sell 'lookups' in their database. This way you can look up anyone you want and no one gets notified of anything.
zulln 4y ago
> Though in doing so they will be notified that you have done so. No. Depends on how you look it up, but you could just send an email (from anonymous account if wanted) to the tax agency asking for someones salary. You get an answer back in a few days without them being notified.
- Cederfjard 4y ago
  Not their salary per se, to be clear. They will tell you how much income someone paid tax on in the previous tax year.
progre 4y ago
Salary is not freely available, you generally have to pay for specific lookups as a private person. However there is a lowtech way around this. Taxed income is published yearly in a book that resembles an old phonebook, Taxeringskalendern ("the tax calendar"). Freedoom of the press, see? This book (or the part of the book that covers your region) will be available at your local library in the "reference" section. For most people you take the number from the book and divide by 12 and you have a lower bound of their monthly salary. Unless they are stalking you at the library noone will know. Very useful when going into salary negotiotiations to know aprox what the rest of the team and your boss makes.
- notch656a 4y ago
  That sounds like the perfect book for thieves to find out exactly who has money. I have survived living in sketchy high-theft areas by pretending to be poor -- this would totally blow my cover.
Veen 4y ago
I believe that's true in Norway. Not sure about Sweden.

Almost as interesting, you can (as I understand it) look up the current salary of anyone you want to. Though in doing so they will be notified that you have done so.

diggan 4y ago

They'd be notified that someone looked it up unless you buy the entire full set of data for the entire county / country, as it contains a bunch of people all together then. Also, in the notification they receive, only which service was used will be mentioned and not exactly who did it. So you can still lookup how much your co-workers earn without them knowing you asked for. But generally people are open with how much they earn, so it's really not an issue.

shafoshaf 4y ago
If the US could do one thing for race relations, I feel this would be it.
- filoleg 4y ago
  I feel like you are being a bit too optimistic in terms of what it would lead to. It definitely would do something to race relations, but perhaps not what you wanted, especially in the short term. Hint: it might end up leading to an uptick in antisemitism.
robin_reala 4y ago
Buy, or, you know, just go to the library. (I did this after I moved here to check that I wasn’t being drastically underpaid compared to my colleagues. Turns out that I was.)

dagw 4y ago

Though in doing so they will be notified that you have done so. There are companies that download the entire salary database and sell 'lookups' in their database. This way you can look up anyone you want and no one gets notified of anything.

zulln 4y ago

> Though in doing so they will be notified that you have done so. No. Depends on how you look it up, but you could just send an email (from anonymous account if wanted) to the tax agency asking for someones salary. You get an answer back in a few days without them being notified.

Cederfjard 4y ago
Not their salary per se, to be clear. They will tell you how much income someone paid tax on in the previous tax year.

progre 4y ago

Salary is not freely available, you generally have to pay for specific lookups as a private person. However there is a lowtech way around this. Taxed income is published yearly in a book that resembles an old phonebook, Taxeringskalendern ("the tax calendar"). Freedoom of the press, see? This book (or the part of the book that covers your region) will be available at your local library in the "reference" section. For most people you take the number from the book and divide by 12 and you have a lower bound of their monthly salary. Unless they are stalking you at the library noone will know. Very useful when going into salary negotiotiations to know aprox what the rest of the team and your boss makes.

notch656a 4y ago
That sounds like the perfect book for thieves to find out exactly who has money. I have survived living in sketchy high-theft areas by pretending to be poor -- this would totally blow my cover.

Veen 4y ago

I believe that's true in Norway. Not sure about Sweden.