nowyoudont

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   by nowyoudont 2y ago

   I super agree that fully open salary data would be amazing. On the second point, I would argue that you have very little ability to determine when you’ve gained enough experience as an employee to argue for a raise. Whereas an employer with
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   by nowyoudont 2y ago

   But the salary data that’s available online to me as an employee is imperfect and extremely limited. This would be like if every employee of a major company sent their exact salary and demographic information to levels.fyi, which would neve
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   by nowyoudont 2y ago

   Huh, this tacit collusion being legal thing is mind boggling. The law firm example seems imperfect though. Publicly announcing that you’re raising salaries isn’t really the same as internally sharing that data and choosing to set the same s
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   by nowyoudont 2y ago

   I guess my issue with all the “it’s just info” arguments is this. Employers inherently have an information advantage in salary negotiations. A tool like Pave drastically increases that imbalance. How am I ever going to realistically negotia
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   by nowyoudont 2y ago

   I'm asking this as someone with 0 legal knowledge: doesn't the context matter? If every company takes this data and is like "we want to pay at the 95th percentile" (which is what they all do), that seems like wage fixing
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   Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?

   1098 points by nowyoudont 2y ago|495 comments