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human
CMV: It's better for employees to be open with each other about how much they are paid

(For preface, this is only relevant to salaried employees, it seems hourly employees are more open about their pay.)

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There's a weird cultural norm (at least here in the US) where people are very quiet about how much money they make. Generally it seems the only people who know your salary other than you is a very short list: your HR/accounting department, your spouse, and yourself. In places I've worked my boss usually doesn't even know how much I'm paid. It's considered very taboo in the US to openly discuss your salary in the workplace, for no real good reason.

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I think this should change. If employees were more open and willing to share salaries with each other, it would help root out potential discrimination in the pay, give employees who are getting paid less than their peers leverage for a raise, and just generally give employees more clarity and power over their financial lives.

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When people decide NOT to openly discuss salaries it gives employers the power to underpay employees, because they simply don't know they could (potentially) be getting paid more.
gpt
The problem is that people frequently over-estimate their value and under-estimate the value of other employees.  This results in fragile employees being told that they kind of suck (or suck relative to someone else).  That can be damaging to morale and to the individual's own mental health.  Rather than resulting in a pay increase, it can result in them losing their job all together (whether it be over bitterness, lack of self awareness or storming out in misplaced disgust).  That's not good for anybody.