Why You ABSOLUTELY Should Discuss Salary With Your Coworkers

We will never have salary fairness without salary transparency. As long as companies can keep employees from knowing what others are paid, they can keep overpaying some and underpaying others, for instance women and minorities.
And studies show that salary transparency is not only great for employees - it’s also good for the company.
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[@Sammo-w2y]

100% agree, this was the case for a company I worked for, best part was it made the managers really accountable as they had to justify why 1 person might be paid more than another, really helped the employee know what the company valued.

[@WoohooInc]

Brilliant. When salaries are secret, they can be very arbitrary - when they're open, they can't.

[@vladdumitrica849]

I agree, but for all the people from a country, and also all the companies data must be public

[@CRADDSTER]

Great video. I already like the Swedish open system, but this gave me a bunch more reasons for it. Keep up the great work!

[@WoohooInc]

Thanks - and right back at ya! 👍

[@WoohooInc]

What do you think of making salaries open and transparent inside the workplace? Unbreakable taboo or a great tool to battle unfairness?

[@houserhythm]

Your salary is not a measure of skill at the job you're doing, but a measure of your negotiating skill. And I very much disagree that everyone doing the same job should earn the same, because that means I wouldn't have the chance to negotiate for more, unless the company has the budget to give everyone more. I also don't want to know what others are earning; if they get more, it's gonna make me feel bad that I didn't negotiate better, if they get less it's gonna make me feel bad for them... so either way I have nothing to gain, because again I very strongly disagree that "X does the same job and earns more than me, hence I should get a raise" is not a valid negotiating point.
I know of at least one large company in my city that does pay everyone the same (job x gets €a, job y gets €b etc.) and it encourages everyone to do the bare minimum to not get an official reprimand, cause overachieving gets you nothing, so why put in the effort?

[@WoohooInc]

That makes no sense. Wages should follow your worth to the company, not negotiating skills. Unless of course negotiating is part of your job which it isn't for most people.

[@Juline1221]

I recently took a job. My ass took the job without asking how much they were paying.($16) It's a cooking job and he's short staffed, so it's just me the head chef and the dish washer. That's it! He has me working with no breaks doing prep working the grill and making salads at the same time.
The thing is though i only took the job to save up some money for my internship which i wont be getting paid but now I'm having epiphanies and just saying i want to start the internship so i can get into my career Nd stop working these bs jobs. Please give me some advice if u can. Should i just go do the internship and fuk these jobs?

[@WoohooInc]

If they don't treat you well, don't work there. There might be other jobs that pay about the same where they don't treat people like crap.

[@jilross4892]

We dont have to negotiate wage for others, just for ourselfes. If someone negotiates and sells better, thats a skill too

[@WoohooInc]

The real problem isn't s much when one employee manages to negotiate a higher salary - the problem is when companies systematically underpay certain groups, e.g. women, minorities or older employees. And that we should all be fighting to change.

[@jilross4892]

@@WoohooInc I see thats true

[@WoohooInc]

@@jilross4892 Glad we agree!