re: Why are people so secretive about their salaries?

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I'm retired now but during my working years it was frowned on if not forbidden to discuss salaries. What I learned over the years is that the only way to make salaries equitable is to make them public or discuss them openly. Companies play extreme favoritism toward individuals and then hide behind some made up confidentiality statement in a personnel handbook. Employees should know why their counterpart is worth more or less than they are and companies should be required to explain it. Women will always be underpaid as long as salary knowledge is protected. I saw it every time I had to do appraisals. I don't want to get started on my soap box.

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While I see there could be some merit to this I have to wholeheartedly disagree overall. Way more damage can be had than good with this tact.