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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Re:State employees

[mark-t]

You are contradicting yourself

I don't care what others are getting paid

and:

we are all making peanuts compared to the executives

Clearly you care enough about what others are getting paid to notice the salaries of people that may be getting paid more than you.

Had the thought that these executives might be doing things that are not part of your job simply not occurred to you?