Freeze Your Data - The Work Number https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze

As I understand it, payroll whores your salary out to Equifax*, who then pimps it to others

* Yeah, that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach

I wasn't sure how they could figure this out at the time until someone later pointed out that many corporations do a credit history check on you as part of the background check. This gives them access to past compensation.

The information asymmetry here is, as with much of hiring, pretty bonkers when they had both the current and past comp history during negotiations when you have just yours. You might also have the comp history of your friends too (if you share) but that's still tiny compared to the corporations.

0 - this was in NYC where it's now no longer allowed.

I want to do the jump, but lack of courage, good ideas, sales skills and a very good salary still holding me back (open for suggestions). But if the very good salary would go away, the scales tip instantly.

You will be in trouble if that person left their last job because they were unhappy about pay or if the value you are giving is lower than some other company is willing to pay.

They will leave pretty soon in both cases.

Or even worse, they might be in a hurry to find a job for some reason, then they will accept but see the job as temporary.

Would be interesting to know how this actually effects job market.

As far as I know there are websites for employees to declare how much their employers are paying them. Also would be interesting to know how that actually effects job market.

I didn't see this before but would be cool to have a website to see how much money people around me are paying for rent too.

Here in Sweden, your tax filings are public information; companies can just ask the government what you made last year. I have no idea if they actually do, though, and the data will be somewhat obfuscated if you have extra income on the side.

- $30k for anything that helps my community / humanity

- $100k for anything harmless that I just don't give a damn about

- 3 million per month after tax to work on weapons of war

https://www.workday.com/en-us/products/payroll/overview.html

I would not trust applying for any company with workday.

Tech companies seem to get it but so few others do, including startups.

I usually have 1/3rd the staff I'd normally need but I hire top tier people at 2x what most startups pay. In the end I save money.

It's one of the more abusive uses of click-through agreements - in order to get paid, you have to login and setup your payroll information, and in order to login, you have to click through and agree to these terms, and there is no way to opt out during or after the process.

As an employee you should fight for income taxes to be as high as possible since they are neutral for you and might fund useful things for all. When left in the pocket of your employer they just become their takeaway. Employers won't spend it on improving the company if they don't have to. And the only things that force them to spend money in a predictable manner is regulation and markey opportunity to earn more. When they have those needs they mostly do it with credit anyways.

Conversely as an employer you should advocate for lowest income taxes possible for your workers.

When the HR/CRM/ERP/whatever internal software has the plan to compute these metrics and they display it as metadata next to the people’s names, it’s hard not to curious « just to check ». Maybe it’s not in the company policy but you can never be sure of individuals actions (especially big corps as mentioned in the article)