Knowing What Your Co-Worker Makes Doesn’t Close the Pay Gap
The New York Times
Salary transparency is intended to help address inequities. But making the number public doesn’t seem to move the needle.
Carolyn Kopprasch earns $225,000 a year. Maria Thomas makes $267,890. Then comes Darcy Peters with a salary of $105,143. That information, taken in before I exchange pleasantries with these women, feels almost illicit — like the confessions of a stranger oversharing at a bar. We’ve never spoken before, and there is a certain intimacy that comes from picking up the phone to call someone knowing nothing but her name and her salary. And there is also, some companies bet, a certain kind of power.
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