MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Do Men Know More About Salaries?

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  • Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Zoë Cullen
  • MIT Sloan Management Review
  • 2019

Throughout their careers, employees will need information about salaries for a number of reasons, including negotiating their salary, weighing outside job offers, and deciding between next steps in their career paths. However, because most employers keep salaries secret, employees are left to dig up information on their own — a task that often proves fairly challenging.

Survey data indicates that most employees do not feel satisfied with their current knowledge of salaries. Another factor keeping employees in the dark is that many are reluctant to discuss pay with their coworkers.

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