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I was listening to the State of the Union and Obama is talking about working on fixing the gender gap in salaries in the workplace.
I keep hearing that men make more than women working the same jobs which I don’t have any reason to not believe. There are even mandatory signs on the billboards in the break rooms at work that state it.
But how do we know that this actually exists.
It is fairly close to a fireable offense to talk about how much you make with anybody you work with.
Here’s my easy fix. Make all salaries public knowledge within the company. Make it part of a webpage that HR regularly updates. That gap in pay would close in about 2 seconds.
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but but but its bad etiquette to talk about money! (insert massive eyeroll here)
Yeah, but all the guys that were worth the money they were making would leave for a company that wasn’t publishing their salary in about 3.5 seconds.
Productive talent that appreciates just reward for output? Out the door.
Well, in my strange Utopian world, this would be a mandatory type of thing but even if it weren’t mandatory it could still work. Maybe those productive, talented people would go to companies with published good salaries.
I agree completely!
My department, being a county government agency, of course publishes our salaries. All of the deputies, no matter their sex, make the same, taking into account seniority, etc.
Why wouldn’t companies want a similar transparency?
However, I do NOT think this should be mandated. The government already meddles enough in the business world. I lean on the side of the libertarian view.
But in principle, I agree with you. I think it would foster greater trust in the corporation, within its community and industry.