I’d be interested in seeing how this plays out from a sociological standpoint. Companies are always saying this will create turmoil within. It may at first but in the longer term people may be happier to know they’re getting paid their worth especially when there are wankers who have been able to hide their poor performances behind a veil via brown-nosing.
In software consultancy companies that I have worked in, salary statistics have been made public to other employees. Things like average, median, spread per age/years in company/title/sex. Of course data points were hidden if it was possible to identify a person from it.
I pretty much always talk about it with my coworkers. I think it makes sense to know what people around you are being paid.
In Sweden you can call the IRS and ask for the taxable income of anyone. That way it is quite easy to find out all your colleagues salaries.
Not just Finland, there is an EU directive in the works to make this information available in an anonymized manner. I am positive, anything else just reduces wage competition.
In Poland a law has just been passed making salaries of all public employees public.
I don’t think it’s good idea. In general people tend to overestimate their skills and value and do not have full view on what other people are doing.
It could work for easily measurable jobs (delivered x packages, was on duty z hours), but in other cases it could lead to toxic workplace.
That is, the gender wage gap without controlling for actual work done. My statistics professor claimed we did not have any significant wage gap after taking into control a number of factors as profession and workload.
Couldn’t I already check tax income to get a pretty good idea about what coworkers earn? Genuine question, I have no idea about the answer.
More price transparency can also have problems. It makes it easier for employers to collude in some cases.
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I’d be interested in seeing how this plays out from a sociological standpoint. Companies are always saying this will create turmoil within. It may at first but in the longer term people may be happier to know they’re getting paid their worth especially when there are wankers who have been able to hide their poor performances behind a veil via brown-nosing.
In software consultancy companies that I have worked in, salary statistics have been made public to other employees. Things like average, median, spread per age/years in company/title/sex. Of course data points were hidden if it was possible to identify a person from it.
I pretty much always talk about it with my coworkers. I think it makes sense to know what people around you are being paid.
In Sweden you can call the IRS and ask for the taxable income of anyone. That way it is quite easy to find out all your colleagues salaries.
Not just Finland, there is an EU directive in the works to make this information available in an anonymized manner. I am positive, anything else just reduces wage competition.
In Poland a law has just been passed making salaries of all public employees public.
I don’t think it’s good idea. In general people tend to overestimate their skills and value and do not have full view on what other people are doing.
It could work for easily measurable jobs (delivered x packages, was on duty z hours), but in other cases it could lead to toxic workplace.
That is, the gender wage gap without controlling for actual work done. My statistics professor claimed we did not have any significant wage gap after taking into control a number of factors as profession and workload.
Couldn’t I already check tax income to get a pretty good idea about what coworkers earn? Genuine question, I have no idea about the answer.
More price transparency can also have problems. It makes it easier for employers to collude in some cases.