Comment by solardev
3 years ago
It's probably the highest paid ones who don't want others to know... goes against equal pay for equal work and all that.
For every rockstar 10x developer who actually is worth much more because they are truly exceptional, there's probably a bunch of others that just happened to have good. career trajectory, or entered during a bubble peak, or have a better diploma, or the right connections, or are skilled negotiators or whatnot.
The hope is that salary transparency will bump their colleagues doing similar work at similar quality up to similar pay. The fear is that it can create workplace resentment, or lower everyone's wages, or invite retaliation, etc.
IMO those are short term growing pains that wouldn't last once transparency is normalized, like in government pay.
I don't see how it couldn't result in lower wages over time, especially for folks who are good at negotiating, have planned their career/company moves out over years or decades to maximize salary, etc. Businesses have a budget for payroll, not every business owner is Scrooge McDuck hoarding their gold coins. You have a distribution in pay for lots of reasons, and if you try to eliminate that you're going to end up with the same amount of money spread across the same amount of people in a slightly different way, but everyone at the upper end loses out.