Will making salary public boost fairness?
Experts say this can close gender pay gap, but others warn of unintended side effects
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When women know how much their male counterparts earn, they are in a better place to demand the same compensation, experts say.
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Emma Goldberg
Ms Carolyn Kopprasch earns US$225,000 (S$306,000) a year. Ms Maria Thomas makes US$267,890. Then comes Ms Darcy Peters with a salary of US$105,143.
That information, taken in before I exchange pleasantries with these women, feels almost illicit. All three work at Buffer, a fully remote social media company that made the unusual decision eight years ago to disclose every employee's salary online.