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So, are people in Sweden, Norway and Finland–where you have access to your fellow citizens salary–more unhappy?

• quonn 11y ago
  No, but they are, as far as I know, societies with much smaller income differences than other countries. So that might make up for the fact that the information is public.
  • danellis 11y ago
    In keeping with the topic, I don't think developers are unionized in those countries either.
    • e12e 11y ago
      Some are, some are not -- at least in Norway. Unions are particularly strong in the government sector, and generally even developers will be unionised there -- in the private sector there's a general feel that a software engineer is in such a strong position that they don't need a union. Like for most types of work -- that's probably wrong. But people only ever figure it out when it's too late. At my previous workplace (a research institute) I believe pretty much 100% were organized, both researchers, developers, sys.admins and other staff.
  • kybernetikos 11y ago
    It's probably not unconnected. I heard an interview recently with a company that shares salary data with all employees, and he said it provided a downward pressure on the salaries for top jobs as the people making those decisions knew that any employee could ask them to justify themselves.
• lumberjack 11y ago
  Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I would think salaries in such union dominated work places are much less arbitrary in the first place.