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

Re:Ask HN: Why not make everyone's salary public? by rm999 on Monday February 25, 2013 @08:09PM (#5283162)
I prefer the glassdoor approach: aggregate anonymized numbers so people get a good idea of the income and bonus distribution by company, job title, city, and experience. This really gives anyone a ton of useful information without drama.
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Re:Ask HN: Why not make everyone's salary public? by maniacwhat on Monday February 25, 2013 @08:12PM (#5283177)
I think ideally this would be great, but in practice de-anonymization (by cross-referencing etc.) is extremely hard to prevent. So for the effort you may not even benefit from the bulk aggregation, only adding a layer of obscurity.
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Re:Ask HN: Why not make everyone's salary public? by smartwater on Monday February 25, 2013 @08:53PM (#5283346)
That sounds like the least creative way to use mathematics. They can de-anonymize till the cows come home for all I care. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter at all. Plenty of salaries are made public for various reasons.
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