How do you feel about revealing your salary?
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How do you feel about revealing your salary?
President Obama proposed on Friday that the government collect summary pay data each year from private companies with more than 100 employees.
This proposal comes on the seventh anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which Obama signed in 2009. In 2014, the President signed an executive action on Equal Pay Day that mandated federal contractors to report salary data based on race and gender. Friday’s proposal extended the request for data, covering a total of 63 million private employees. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams is reporting on how the administration’s proposal will impact businesses.
Last year, the hashtag #talkpay was created by Lauren Voswinkel, a software engineer from Pittsburg, to publicly discuss how much people get paid in an effort to “eradicate pay inequality.”
Following the administration’s announcement, the hashtag resurfaced, promoting conversation about public sharing of salaries.
We wanted to know how our audience feels about sharing their salary:
Talking abt gender pay news now @Marketplace morning meeting. Disclosure, etc. So…would you tell us how much you get paid? On Twitter?
— Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal) January 29, 2016
@kairyssdal @Marketplace Yes. Huge fan of pay transparency. Helps SO MUCH with gender pay equality.
— Jonathan Green (@modestholdings) January 29, 2016
@kairyssdal @Marketplace transparency is 100% necessary otherwise equality will never be prioritized
— kiana (@kianarama) January 29, 2016
@kairyssdal @Marketplace Had a boss ('80's) who urged/warned us not to reveal how much we were paid. Knew then they were screwing the women.
— Tim Farrell (@Tim_Farrell11) January 29, 2016
@kairyssdal @Marketplace sure. Tenured physics professor in my 17th year. $61k.
— drmagoo (@drmagoo) January 29, 2016
@kairyssdal @Marketplace I would, yes. It's all about transparency. As a social media specialist, Midwest, white, young, female: $67K
— Kristin M. Coppens (@KristinMCoppens) January 29, 2016
@kairyssdal @Marketplace Tweeting your salary is like tweeting your weight. How much does it really mean w/o context?
— jeremycoleman (@jeremycoleman) January 29, 2016
@kairyssdal @Marketplace I don't even tell my family, just say good enough. Though everyone in my office knows what everybody makes.
— Ernesto (@EJFoto) January 29, 2016
@kairyssdal @Marketplace still, boomers run the place, and many depts have a "boys club" attitude at the top. Still work to do.
— Elliot Stevenson (@firstklassriot) January 29, 2016
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