What It’s Like Working at a Company Where Everyone Knows Your Salary 

Yes Break down the walls of separation

That this seems unusual is a testament of how few people have served in the military. Everyone knows everyone else's salary because it's visible on your sleeve or collar. It also shows that fairness - even in the largest org. - works by having a max. ratiio from the lowest to the highest of 10x. (Highest General makes only 10x the lowest private.)

@Tor Teo can't*

This was a lil boring Vice. How bout something like neighbor's from hell or something

RemembranceRugGuy Yep! I was literally thinking that exact same thing. While I was in the Army, guys pretty much had a good idea of what the guy next to him made depending on their rank and other factors such as BAH/BAS etc.

I see pros and cons to this. I mean like you said, it helps you value yourself to your peers, but I'm not sure I'd want the general public knowing my salary. People treat you differently and expectations change when they know your financial situation. Not to mention it opens up bigger potential liabilities (people making more will probably be more likely to be targeted for fraud, to be robbed, etc.). Think this might be better if it was just data published internally instead of publicly.

Brendan E yes

It's a mixed bag of worms that's also based on hire date. I've hired people under me who I pay more than myself that have less skills.

@culturefreedom89 don't*

@@JGLuxe Yeah that's not how reality works though. The people earning the most aren't earning that because they're working harder than everyone else. That's fucking nonsense. The idea that we live in a meritocracy is fantasy.

Yes!

I got hired on after a lot of my coworkers and was getting $10 as my starting current pay. A customer once asked me and a coworker how much we get paid since we were hiring, found out she was getting paid almost $2 shorter then me. A simple ask to our GM her pay was raised to the current hiring pay

@@jadeestelle5252 good thing she asked and it worked out for her. Some companies will say "sorry it's just not in the budget"

I own my own company and I think its a shit idea

It shouldn't be, but this is why so many people in america are poor, there are people out there that havent made a buck over $10 an hour at their job their whole life that are wealthier than people who have made 60k a year for the past 2 decades. We have an extremely childish education of what wealth is.

@Wendel Bolide Have you tried alternative solutions to your housing problem? Like househacking or trying to find a home with a separate living space you could rent out? Or if your single renting a room and saving money for a down payment for this. Do you have a significant amount of debt causing financial stress?

@Wendel Bolide 2 options 1. Go to school avoid going into any debt and do a side hustle to pay rent and living expenses. I would definitely keep renting the space your in if it's the cheapest you can get. Build your credit a bit while doing this so you'll have a good credit history even if you have to start off with a secured card and just spend a few bucks a month on it and pay it completely off every month 2. Get a full time job, establish credit history, keep a side hustle and save up as much money as you can. After this buy a property that you could rent out part of it even if it's not a duplex just something that will take a significant chunk out of the mortgage. Build your wealth and eventually buy a 2nd home rent out the first house and do this as many times as you can. Invest your extra money in a roth account and always live below your means. If you do all of this successfully you will be on a path few people in this country are on financial freedom and the freedom to not be tied down by a traditional job. Wealth is all about building assets and keeping liabilities as low as possible (debt, cars, loans, etc)

@@zacht9805 or military :)

I would be absolutely miserable but its good pay for what it is. Im sure some types of personalities would enjoy this kind of work.

i think they said she's also a pastry chef

Take into consideration cost of living

Yeah basically what they said, you have to factor in the very high cost of living. So yeah it's not bad but it's not like you'll get rich

I think they said this was seattle? The Mcdonalds down there is hiring and it says 15 and hour. But 20 min away on the outskirts of seattle the pay for mcdonalds is like 11 to start.

Her job title is head chef and they talk about how she's employable at fancy professional kitchens. Just scooping ice cream would be $18/hour.

Well when the rent is like $2000 a month it's more like $12 a hr

Yeah but this in Seattle so that's probably barely a middle class salary.

@@JeffM375 still a lot though

Albert Hoss not how it works. the rent she pays doesn’t come out of her paying wage lol. the whole point of giving yourself a wage is to milk as much money out of your company as you can.

Why should somebody else know what I make? None of their business

We should just jump to having a chip that logs everything in your arm tooo. Please

I am from Norway, You can’t see it but the problem is the person gets mail say did you check his tex return 😅

Meeica ! Freedom of keeping shit confidential. 😂

In Sweden if you work for the government/state its public. Sweden is a big union country so its easy to know what people earn.

Also it helps prevent any form of biases in gender, sex and so forth. Both for the men, and the women.

BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Employers not telling everyone their others salary isn't oppression to the extent that the employees are free to share with each other

@@ego8842 man that bootlicking for companies ain't gonna get you a job.

@@ego8842 that isnt ensuring corporate fairness as corporate tends to have the most power in labor negotiations then workers.

@@ego8842 You went from reasonable to draconian real quick my guy. You're caring too much about the corporations as if they're people. Care about the workers instead, you're one of them.

@@ego8842 true that. Transparency can solve a lot of problems in this world.

There are a ton of big corporations which have pay scales and explicitly show pay and benefits in their handbooks. Just by where I live I know Boeing does this as well as Costco.

@Joseph Geiger Equitable doesn't mean less. Providing a stable income for your employees shouldn't be the burden of your customers but the business owners.

@Joseph Geiger no, because tips don't go to everyone, they only go to one employee.thus, the inequity

@Joseph Geiger mnope. Didn't say it was a great system. Just explained

Tipping is one of the most flawed system in america, honestly it's so stupid. keeping things simple is better. Tipping needs to go and increase in wages instead. Also the benefit of salary transparency is that it allows you to have a say in what is fair based on your work.

yes, people deserve living wages that make a dignified life possible, that shouldn’t depend on the “good will” or the good mood of customers.

How so?

@@kotyayv I'm not sure exactly which way OP meant this but the way I read it, there are two interpretations: 1. If you are an employee of a labor union (like myself) all salary information gets reported to the DOL. Which is then available for FOIA requests. Which then ends up on union-busting websites so they can try to show how overpaid union staffers are. You can find me here: www.unionfacts.com/local/employees/509111/SEIU/1199/ 2. If you are a member of a union, you are likely on a wage scale. Which means if someone knows your job title and seniority, they can easily look up your pay in the contract.

Ya you can look up the pay for all government employees in Virginia I think it's that way nation wide.

In the USA it's that way with all government employees.

David in America illegal income is taxable

@@PinkFZeppelin You know a range with federal employees, not the exact amount. You can make good guesses based on time in grade and length of service.

But they will know who has searched and viewed your income

I just do not want people knowing how poor I am. :(

0ttoman you know you're not forced to tip...

Joseph Geiger cuz its BS that a restaurant has the right to pay ppl peanuts and assume that customers will cover the difference.. And it's ok to tip.. The problem is that its % based.. which makes even less sense ..

@Joseph Geiger up the prices, what would've normally been given as tip is now part of the staff salary

@Joseph Geiger Presumably many would work there because of the income being steady instead of dependent on tips Also if its an ice cream shop most people probably won't tip, because theres not much personal service involved. Like even if I order a meal for pick up I usually don't tip (I do tip delivery men and women if I get food delivered though.) I only tip if I've had service by a server and waiter throughout the meal. I assume many people have a similar mentality

Thats 75k gross not net.

@@JeffM375 obviously

Jeff Moore duh...

@@qwerty12345678996 $~60k net. not really worth it in Seattle

@@JeffM375 You're a moron.

It's fairly normal pay for a head chef in seattle

Shes a head chef not a scooper

yeah, but the employees aren't all getting paid the same they're just public to the rest of the coworkers and if they have questions about their salary they can go ask her.

sah bear He always plays devil’s advocate in his interviews, makes for a better discussion I think.

Most of the world's problems are. Just as a matter of most of the world's leaders being men, it's literally statistically mostly the fault of men in power.

@@devBadgerJ So what? Many of those Billionaires get fucked over by women in divorce. Jeff Bezos lost like 20 billion dollars to his wife.

@@angelgjr1999 but whose fault was it? Bezos stepped out of his marriage

Chevon Bailey Yes I know but I’m saying women benefit from marriage. And men don’t.

How is she not breaking federal gender discrimination laws by refusing to hire men?

I dont think that word means what she thinks it means

Thank you for acknowledging that obvious logic as a woman (rather than reflexively jumping on her man-hating bandwagon).

Yep. Same for the military. I'm always shocked by people who act like their pay is some kind of secret that empowers them.

It's not

The people at the top making decisions are mostly men and it has always been that way. I personally dont go around talking like she does but I understand what shes saying.

Teachers are paid by tax payers. Our tax dollars are not being properly allocated, they use it for war instead.

Not really , $18 would be around $37,000 a year before tax. We don’t have state income tax here just federal. A elementary school teacher ( with a masters ) starts at $69,000 working for Seattle school district (public schools)

sydney powell I think this is another idiot, who believes the woman is just scooping ice cream and working the register to earn 75k. I see it all over the comments. Did they even listen while watching? She is the Pastry Chef, which means she isn’t scooping for customers. She’s making good money, but it’s because of market there. Still, a shame, that teachers with a Masters, make less. But, it’s a different field, and the owner can pay more, by making changes to the business. Schools don’t do this, and public ones cut funding all the time, which is why teachers spend their own money on supplies so often.

While making $330k

Yeah, this hard working entrepreneur is allowed to have her correct opinions.

Jose Luis Sanchez yes she can have racist opinions

Exactly.

Honestly i was kinda offended that she was making it out to be a race/gender issue instead of just admitting that management would rather keep EVERYONE in the dark equally. But shes fighting the good fight even if her motivations are a bit misinformed.

Races and Genders are types of classes. A class is a broad group society designates for you based on real or imagined features which determines how you will be treated and what is expected of you. Your perceived race, gender, ancestry, citizenship and level of wealth are all classes you are part of.

@@niicommey4117 your being purposly obtuse. Class in this sense inherintly means level of wealth and income ie middle lower and high class. Stop trying to obstruct conversation by attempting to redefine words and phrases.

@@ooohspookyghost8400 I'm aware, but all forms of class have these features in common and have similar consequences in the work place (e.g. disparity in salaries. variable probability of being. ceteris paribus, hired or promoted). Also, different forms of class have an effect on one another. Being part of one type of class (race) can have an effect on your wealth and thus your economic class (although it would be more accurate to call it your decision making class). So it may be worthwhile to mention these commonalities, because people often fail to see the similarities between these types, and thus fail to properly define the problem. If one realizes that all of these civil conflicts (Gender conflict, racial conflict, immigrant vs native, economic conflict) are really all forms of class conflict, one may be able to find transferable solutions for each of these kinds of conflict.

MaXmEaCh how much would pay yourself for a company you started ?

@@Ortiz1510 A livable wage while reinvesting the majority into my business and employees for growth and sustainability. How much would you invest, Marcos?

Thats all state jobs, anything that received the pay from the gov't

Well it makes sense because those state jobs and public servants are funded thru tax payers, so they should have the right to know where their money is going to.

That’s what I said too! I work for the Govt and everyone can see my salary if they looked it up... nothing new

@@iVince905 not all state jobs are funded directly by taxpayers. Some jobs are funded through grants, federal programs or investment portfolios.

Far left racist misandry?

Nope identity politics rubbish which ultimately seeks concessions from the system and more division instead of completely changing it. Most of the far left would actually want a trade union that unites workers and seeks improvements in conditions independent of those who benefits from their work.

Besnik Nokaj lmao 😂

Gender wage gap is a myth.

Angel Gutierrez nope

@@On_The_Piss yes

To pay your college's wages

@@jamesrusselleriii8284 Poverty wages my ass. I know it's more expensive there but it's still ridiculously high

how much you are paid is not by what you studied, but the value it brings. So if she came up with a new flavor that brought in 350K more of revenue she's worth paying 75k. As a mater of fact if she brings in 350K its a steal. VALUE not education is what matters in the marketplace.

You have to go to college to be a chef. You can manage any retail store and make 100k+

@@YuhNinja Minimum wage in Seattle is 15/hour but the cost of living is insane. Rent is about 2000-5000 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment. Most grocery stores have about a 50% markup on all goods. Not to mention they stopped free public transportation and a 1 month bus pass costs about $70/month or $4 a day. Driving is even worse as parking is absurdly expensive which can be about 200-300 dollar a month.

You don't think white Anglo Saxons males have a agenda to separate race and gender...Come on. Really? Show me the facts to back up your statement....

We white men be devil's wanna keep everyone down👻

@Declan HillSame.

It's great they are like a mosquito that won't quit, Trump 2020 looking more likely as even hard Lefty's are getting annoyed and seeing the stupidity.

Matt Williams - See? It's already starting to hurt her. It's not going to work as anticipated.

@@Simba______ how is it hurting here, people wanting to work at your establishment is a good thing, no?she has the right to hire or not hire whoever she wants

You'll also probably pay $2k a month to rent a one bedroom apartment and $8 for an ice cream cone.

@@brendane3283 you can get the ice cream for free if you use slave labor. Doesn't that sound nice right? The reason it's expensive is because it's a nice area. Why? Because of people like this nice lady in the video. And she's probably for rent control and lowering the cost of housing overall.

@Tor Teo yeah but why take 20k when you can get 75k lmfao

@D D Yeah, sometimes....

@@myeyesaresmiling442 so people who don't pay their taxes take home more money, who knew. if only everyone did this

@@myeyesaresmiling442 anecdotes to go

@@myeyesaresmiling442 The Adam Ruins Tipping video includes a reference for each point it makes, showing where the show got all of its information from

Zz cc money doesn’t make you not oppressed. You think she’s less likely to be raped or treated like shit by mean

victoria hale yes. She can afford to be in richer and safer neighbourhoods. She can go to a whole foods in the ritzy place of town instead of a more-for-less or whatever with 5 homeless guys outside it because it’s Seattle. Should it make a difference? Different question, but it does regardless.

@@victoriahale5254 You clearly deserve to be treated like sht

Why?

Exactly! She just wants to show off!

Jesus christ your dumb. Did you miss where it said "Head Chef" on the screen

@@zacht9805 aka only chef

@@youaresohistory Yeah and considering this is like a boutique ice cream place I bet that's one hell of a job, plus they have 8 stores in seattle she could be the head chef of any number of those stores. Hell maybe even all 8

@@zacht9805 Shes the chef of one. The executive chef would oversee several.

@@EdwardBIl Or they could actually make all of the ice cream at one of the stores and transport it to the rest. I bet she's probably got the highest store level salary

But is true. Statistically speaking POC and women tend to make less than white male counterpart. I remember reading a thread on twitter were a black woman stated how POC should discuss their pay with their coworker's. This conversation led to other viral retweet of female POC talking about how they discovered how much less they are paid compared to the person doing the same job as them. I remember one of the individual was a black woman and she found out she 20K less than her white male coworker doing the same job. Just cause you never experience this doesn't mean it does not exist.

@@evano5635 Lol just stop while you're ahead. Your anecdotal evidence is meaningless. Also, post your "statistics".

@@evano5635 What you fail to consider is the possibility that the black woman was hired not because of her talents and skills but because of some kind of "affirmative action" quotas. She might have been terrible at her job, which could have been the actual reason she was getting paid less. If you start setting everyone's pay based primarily on their skin color, that is just as weird and racist a thing to do as anything else.

You also sign away many of your rights in the military... In conclusion, it's the military. Why do we keep trying to push crap on other people, live your life and leave others alone.

"No one complains" hilarious.

Lol literally no one cares 😂 it true tho , no one talk shit on others

Well no one complains about the salary. But about everything else, there will be someone that complains.

jacek p I was feeling it until she said that, honestly

Agreed

Not exactly, it has to do with people not factoring in the differences in in pay for different jobs and also how many hours you work. If a woman works as a baker and makes 40k a year and then a man works as a doctor and makes 110k. It will scew the numbers do men make more.

So in the future, we will have AI based companies where no humans needed to produce anything yet shareholder can gain profit for not lifting a finger. Income/Profit is an inherited part of Capitalism. Wanna save the world, find a suitable evolution to capitalism that does not require turning into progressive communism, because both of them are 2 different ideas that solve different problems

By keeping salary information public we can hold those who give the wages accountable.

Path to Billions Wrong

Minneapolis?

1000x times this

Grim Reaper she is the head chef at a gourmet ice cream shop where one cone is $8+ not that crazy and that is before taxes

@@graceharris2485 "Head chef?" For an ice cream shop?!

Grim Reaper yes! They make the ice cream in store and the cones.

Charlotte A actually you gotta keep in mind his resume , did he have more experience then you cause that will also show pay

lol damn, people these days, hope you get through on something eventually?

@@xdxxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdx8578 We're on the verge of getting a significant pay raise, but I am so burned out because I haven't been able to take time off because 76 hours on every paycheck is what it takes to keep rent at only 50% of my take home pay. I had a heated discussion with my manager today and volunteered to leave because I am so burned out I would have caused more messes than the ones I was trying to clean. But I had to ask for a cash advance so I could afford rent as I've used almost all of my sick time this year. I'm so anxious I'm having trouble eating, sleeping, or even doing the basics.

Also, I have no clue what I'm talking about.

No it's more the surprise she's making more than the average restaurant manager salary working at an ice cream joint. But more power to them

What? I am from India and everyone wants money while living in this shithole.

@@HimmatManes he makes no sense

@@HimmatManes Haha, that made me laugh

Fleur Savez there’s Glassdoor , or pay scale. Many software /websites where people can put their salary anonymously and others can see what people are being paid for the same job.

@@juanpolanco2067 But does that involve the exact same company? And what about experience etc. + people can brag online.

If the company can't offer a living wage, why would someone want that job? That's moronic.

@@Jayjordancomedy desperation

Andrew Enriquez hey bud do you think a ceo and an ice cream server are the same job? 🙄

@@sanderstar1000 no they're definitely not and she deserves to pay herself that much. I guarantee she was arguing about the increased wages CEOs were making when she was an activist though.