Comment by sokoloff
3 years ago
If there are 100 SWEPR5s in the proposal above, Alice's nosy co-worker or neighbor only learns the range of Alice's salary.
If Alice is the only one, they learn the precise value.
3 years ago
If there are 100 SWEPR5s in the proposal above, Alice's nosy co-worker or neighbor only learns the range of Alice's salary.
If Alice is the only one, they learn the precise value.
I think the question is more why should an individual's salary be private?
Personally, I think money is power, and I want to know about power disparities to better protect myself. But I understand there are factors to consider.
By all means please tell us your salary in a public hn comment then. Nobody is stopping you
220k base 350k stock
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Upthread proposer asked "is there any disadvantage[?]" I listed one (or two, if you count "this won't accomplish much because of the equity comp portion").
Philosophically, whether an individual's ought to be private is an interesting but distinct question. This proposal has the disadvantage that it makes disclosures about individual people who might not want that disclosure made and which are not being made today.
If an individual salary ought to be secret, why does the US insist on advertising the salary of so many people (not even just the salary range either - but the individual name = $xxxxxx)
If a salary shouldn't be secret, why does the US insist on allowing some people to keep their salary secret?
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It’s only a disadvantage if you already consider individual disclosure a bad thing.
Why would you be entitled to know my salary, or anything else about me and my life? “I want to know” is obviously not a good enough reason.
Because that information has benefits for labor as a whole. Conversely, "I want my salary to be a secret" isn't a good reason to keep it private and I don't see any good reason why it nerds to be private. Nobody is asking for what you jack off to, because it isn't relevant for salary negotiations and it's actually something that's reasonably expected to remain private. Nobody is asking about the rest of your life. Why are you so defensive?
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Does the precise value matter for anything though? I would say that any privacy intrusion happens with the range already.
And that would be bad because… ?
...Alice may not wish for that information to become public, for whatever mix of reasons that she decides.