The salary question?

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It’s a bit uncouth.

I tend to give a range. As in, “it’s in this bracket”.

I’d never share the specific figure with colleagues.
 
montymint said:
it hardly comes up but there are times where I have to remind a couple of my mates that I earn far less and can't join in more expensive trips etc
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It's like that episode of Friends, and it's true.

A friend of mine is a department head in one of the big TV production company (I think they make American Idol or America got Talent?), he flies business class like people taking buses, so to him he a last-minute trip away (wife permitted) is no problem but another friend who is renting in London isn't so easy to do the same. When we went to a friend's wedding in Taiwan a couple years ago, the friend who is less flushed, his family chipped in for his airfare to surprise him as his birthday present so he isn't missing out as we all know he wants to go but can't afford to.
 
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kai said:
A friend started a new job last week and during a load of us catching up on the weekend via Zoom, the first question he got asked by a friend was “so, how much are you making, then!”
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I'd have no issue sharing the info in the proper context, and it doesn't sound like that was the proper context. Your friend basically wanted to know if he was being outdone, no?
 
fobose said:
I don't mind talking about it to my close friends, even though they earn 3x + more than me. I wont discuss with colleagues as its company policy not to talk about it.
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Most companies have a similar policy, but the law expressly allows the discussion of salary for the purposes of determining if "fair pay" is taking place which allows employees to generally skirt around it.
 
Nitefly said:
It’s a bit uncouth.
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This is the way I've always thought about it, maybe it's a generational thing. People seem to overshare as much as they possibly can these days, from posting their whole lives on social media, to humblebrags on internet forums.
 
I have absolutely no issue discussing it, I understand some people don't like talking about it but our accounts department had a go at me for discussing it, however I pointed out that the law says I can and if I hadn't been discussing it, I wouldn't have noticed they'd cocked up my bonus.
 
Energize said:
Most companies have a similar policy, but the law expressly allows the discussion of salary for the purposes of determining if "fair pay" is taking place which allows employees to generally skirt around it.
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I did not know that! Mind you, I've been in my company longer than most so I wouldn't want to tell them what I am on just in case it is more and causes upset!
 
I'd tell if I was asked by family or friends but they don't ask and my work colleagues are on well advertised pay scales so everyone at work knows the "basic" wage of each other until you become an "upper" manager when the scales are removed and pay-par-performance kicks in. However for us lowly folks any additional "individual "extra" on top of the basic people may get aren't normally discussed, so it's things like helping out with Boarding School fee's etc.
 
People who are quiet or awkward when asked about salary really think they are getting overpaid for what they do. Especially when there are others around them that do it for less.

Everyone at work knows what everyone is on basic anyway and I am not shy to talk if someone asks.
 
My pay is so weak that im embarrassed to talk about it :P But we can survive on our incomes, and then some so... Its all good.
No one at work talks about pay at all.
Ive always considered it a bit uncouth to discuss it and anyone boasting about it is usually a "bell end" It tends to be top revenue owners and gucci corner sofa types.
 
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