Open Salaries: the Good, the Bad and the Awkward (yahoo.com)

gollum123 writes: More employers, from Whole Foods Market, with 91,000 employees, to smaller companies such as SumAll and Squaremouth, are opening up companywide salary information to all employees. They generally don't disclose it to the public—but one company, Buffer, posts all employees' salaries on its website. The idea of open pay is to get pay and performance problems out on the table for discussion, eliminate salary inequities and spark better performance. But open pay also is sparking some awkward conversations between co-workers comparing their paychecks, and puncturing egos among those whose salaries don't sync with their self-image.

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Buffer salaries

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Here is a link to the buffer salaries. https://open.buffer.com/transp... It pays to be a hipster!

In Norway, EVERYONES salary is available

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In Norway, EVERYONES salary is available and guess what, nothing bad happened.

Re:In Norway, EVERYONES salary is available

[Anonymous Coward]

In Norway, EVERYONES salary is available and guess what, nothing bad happened.

Not exactly. Total income after tax deductions are published. But you have no idea if that total is from one job or several jobs or stock market profits or real estate profits or whatever taxable sources of income a person may have. All you get is the sum. Also, you don't know what tax deductions have been subtracted from the published total - people are always surprised when some millionaire has 0 taxable income. Probably paid a lot of interest or invested everything . . .

Re:State employees

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State employee? I are one. And my salary is available via public information request. In fact, a few years ago our IT department had to provide a dump of name, position, and salary to a local newspaper which promptly posted it on their website, searchable, sortable, etc.

Something rotton in the department...

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I had a boss who made a big deal about giving me a routine 2% raise after I was with the company for six years. When I pointed out that I got a 50% raise after my first year and every raise since then was always 2% because of the salary cap, he got mad because I made more money than him for four years. Although we were coworkers for nearly five years before he became a manager, he thought he was better than everyone else and his paycheck proved it. That I made more money than him for many years didn't sit well with him. Needless to say, I got a job and a 40% pay raise at a different company.