Watch: It’s your right to share your salary, not doing so could be holding you back.
At my last company, one day someone in accounting approached me at lunch and quietly told me I need to ask for a raise because I was way underpaid.
They gave me a number to shoot for. It was about twice than what I had been making at the time.
So I went online, did some research, found some figures backing up my claim, put it all together and went to my boss.
I got what I asked for.
If it hadn’t been for that person in accounting telling me I was way underpaid, I’d have never known. I went from barely scraping by to being able to have a savings account and getting all my debts paid thanks to them.
You should at least check sites like salary.com to start the process of seeing what you should be making.
Because this is crucially important
also important if you’re a woman: you will get more responsibilities loaded on you with no raise in pay or hours. you NEED to get explicit with the people doing this to you about expecting to be compensated for doing more work, like your male coworkers are. the way women are constantly given more work without more pay is the number one way women end up unequal in the workplace. i can’t count how many of my female friends are basically full-time managers on a part time cashier salary.
