Comment by Apocryphon
3 years ago
There definitely is a social media trend not only on TikTok but on YouTube, Twitter, etc. of people publicly disclosing their salaries.
There might be some amount of clout-chasing and humblebragging to this, but it also fits the spirit of the trend towards pay transparency as expressed by tech and/or young workers online.
The transparency angle is nothing short of an excuse to brag.
That’s fine, if it gets people to share their salaries.
There are plenty of avenues such as Levels.FYI, Glassdoor, public Google Sheets etc. where people share compensation info anonymously.
Yeah, definitely this. It's another gen-z fallacy that continues to encourage me to have nothing to do with that generation as someone on the fringe of the millennial / zoomer label.