The Value of Being Transparent, Especially When It's Hard (opens in new tab)

The idea of open salaries is great, but ultimately it turns all salary negotiations into either a promotion or a collective bargaining situation. The former is obviously harder to obtain, and the latter is very much out of fashion. Organising a labour union in tech seems unlikely to become common place in the near term.

So this trend would shift the cards to the employer unreasonably AFAICT, working to keep salaries suppressed.

Remember that when posting for a new position, salaries are pegged to prevalent market rates. Even bad negotiators as a result benefit from the upward pressure on salaries introduced by good negotiators. If all companies started fixing salaries (which is so far the only way I've seen open salaries implemented), a lot of upward pressure on salaries would be removed, harming all employees, not just the good negotiators.

Good question -- I personally don't know of anyone else who is doing the whole "Open Salaries" thing. Does anyone else?

I agree that open salaries are really really nice.

I am only aware of Balanced Payments that used to have it, but unfortunately they've recently shut down.

Chad Whitacre of Gratipay may know if any other companies do this by now.