Related Posts
Community Builder
More Posts
Digital interview process ?
Bowl Leader
Happy Diwali! What’s everyone making today?
I m getting offer from birlasoft is it safe
Enthusiast
Additional Posts in Salary Negotiations
New to Fishbowl?
Download the Fishbowl app to
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
Are you in the US? Look up the protections under the National Labor Relations Act. Companies cannot stop (most) employees from talking about their own pay. Some states have laws that extend that protection to everyone (Colorado's recent equal pay act, for example). The law does not allow for a third party (e.g. payroll or HR) to share your wages with someone else or vice versa.
This comment is wonderful. Thank you for letting me know what this is called so I can bring it to my co-workers' attention whom were told they could not talk about what they're paid.
Mentor
It is not illegal, it’s just taboo (in the US). It only benefits the company not to discuss pay.
I am a big believer in pay transparency and am happy to share my compensation in most situations. I think it’s actually really important to do so, especially in my industry where someone with the same title, in the same location, could be making wildly different salaries.
At a last job, I had a creative partner. We had the same title and did the same exact level/quantity of work. I’d argue, she was even better than me. We found out that she was making over 40K less than me. At the same company, in the same office. If we hadn’t talked about it, she wouldn’t have been able to fight to solve the problem. The company would have done nothing if she hadn’t raised the alarm.
Thank you so so much!!! I feel as companies want staff members to avoid discussing these things because they want to control who they pay what too lol but it’s not fair to give someone 5+ years and then a HS graduate with no experience comes in with what you’re currently making and i had to work for that $2 raise. I get different times and now in ILLINOIS the minimum wage is going up but i feel so should everyone else’s pay
Discussing pay while not professional is not illegal and employees are protected should they choose to share this information. Any retaliation would be illegal. Look up Pay Transparency In the DOL resources: Under Executive Order 11246, you have the right to inquire about, discuss, or disclose your own pay or that of other employees or applicants. You cannot be disciplined, harassed, demoted, terminated, denied employment, or otherwise discriminated against because you exercised this right.
It is generally understood that you don’t talk about your pay. Most likely your boss feels it is happening and wants to remind everyone. In your case if there are constant reminders it certainly feels like there is some disparity that s/he doesn’t want anyone to know about.
🚩🚩🚩
Not illegal, frowned upon.