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Ok, so what are your perceived advantages of knowing your colleagues salary? We also follow this so-called "taboo" in our office, and everything is peaceful. T
by greyman 14y ago
Ok, so what are your perceived advantages of knowing your colleagues salary?
We also follow this so-called "taboo" in our office, and everything is peaceful. There is a rule to not talk about it, but it is not strictly enforced...if one really would like to reveal his salary, he could; but it seems that there just isn't a motivation to do that.
- philwelch 14y agoHarder for management to rip people off by underpaying them.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoI suspect that a lot of people mostly don't want to confront potentially unpleasant truths about how their employer values them in a relative sense. Probably a self-confidence thing as much as anything.
- zura 14y agoHow their employer values them should be reflected only in the title - be it Sr. Whatever, Whatever or Jr. Whatever. EDIT (meta): How many times it should be stated on HN that downvoting is not for expressing disagreement... Just reply your opinion and move on.
- theorique 14y agoSo everyone gets paid the same and is compensated with an increasingly fancy title? Someone will benefit from that arrangement, but it won't be the majority of employees.
- zura 14y agoI'm not a huge fan of fancy titles either. What I meant to say is that the salary should reflect the contribution. So if two person contribute the same value to the company, they should have same compensations. Which is not necessary tied to titles, right. The only entity which benefits from salary secrecy is the employer itself.
- theorique 14y agoI see what you mean now. I misunderstood the meaning from your original posting - I thought you meant that the CTO should get paid the same as a junior programmer should get paid the same as a janitor.
- dalke 14y agoIt's hard to enforce one's rights under the Equal Pay Act without knowing if there's a salary disparity. BTW, it's not like this knowledge makes things significantly worse in the workplace. Government employee salaries are public, and where I live now (Sweden), all salaries are public. The newspaper even publishes each year the top wages in the local area.
- paulnechifor 14y ago>Ok, so what are your perceived advantages of knowing your colleagues salary? This looks like a loaded question. It's not a perceived advantage, it's a real advantage to know how much you are paid compared to others. I'm still in college and I like the fact that scores are public. When I'll get hired, how do I maximize what I get paid if I don't know what others are getting?
- pnathan 14y agoIt tells me if the company pays fair market value for everyone, or if I'm just a bad negotiator. :-)