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A comment on Ask HN: Why not make everyone's salary public?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why not make everyone's salary public? by jasonm23 on Monday February 25, 2013 @06:02PM (#5282488)
To be fair, you'd just making a different set of people resentful, those who know they could negotiate a better deal, and they leave to start their own venture. If people feel like their wasting time, ie. getting paid less than they know they could earn, because they're folded into a salary level system, they're going to leave.

Frankly making salaries public knowledge is an egregious invasion of privacy, and a security risk.

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Re:Ask HN: Why not make everyone's salary public? by cjbprime on Monday February 25, 2013 @06:09PM (#5282522)
shrug I work at a US nonprofit, so the salaries of all our "key employees" are legally required to be public knowledge. As I understand it, this is also true of all H1-B recipients. You seem to be over-reacting.
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