As an employee in local government, my salary in posted in the local newspaper every year. (The paper only posts the top 20 salaries at the organization, but al

As an employee in local government, my salary in posted in the local newspaper every year. (The paper only posts the top 20 salaries at the organization, but all salaries are posted to the paper's website.) And while I prefer it open, there is a lot of grousing throughout the organization about who they think is overpaid, or that they are underpaid. Without such complete transparency there would still be some of the same reactions, but I strongly suspect it would be less. Open salaries is very good because they protect against genuine abuse, but I've seen a lot of people completely misread what equity in pay really means (most recent was several "document technicians" with 10 years seniority (in this case people who worked at a counter to help people file forms) complaining that they were paid less than a database administrator who had been working at the organization for 6 months.)