<story><title>Lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly</title><url>https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/09/21/year-later-salary-history/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tchalla</author><text>&amp;gt; It wasn&amp;#x27;t until it was being actively discussed on the Tech Nottingham Slack that I realised it could have been illegal to talk about&lt;p&gt;How can we move to a society where talking about compensation isn’t illegal?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raxxorraxor</author><text>I would prefer to keep my compensation private.&lt;p&gt;I currently work for a smaller private company. It doesn&amp;#x27;t pay me as much as a large corporation in the industry. Were my compensation public, I would forfeit the option to increase it significantly again.&lt;p&gt;I work here because I live next door, like the people and the work environment. It is worth it to me. Public registers would not reflect these choices. Otherwise I would need to keep up appearances and optimise my compensation. I like to keep these options.&lt;p&gt;Not relevant in Norway because everyone earns a lot. Sweden seems to be a country with significant social pressure, not really a role model for me.&lt;p&gt;That said, under no circumstances should it be illegal to talk about your compensation. Any company that forbids you to do so probably has some dark secrets here.</text></comment>
<story><title>Lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly</title><url>https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/09/21/year-later-salary-history/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tchalla</author><text>&amp;gt; It wasn&amp;#x27;t until it was being actively discussed on the Tech Nottingham Slack that I realised it could have been illegal to talk about&lt;p&gt;How can we move to a society where talking about compensation isn’t illegal?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avianlyric</author><text>It isn’t illegal. The right to discuss your pay publicly, with anyone, is enshrined in British law.&lt;p&gt;Any contract terms to the contrary are invalid, and actions taken against you for sharing are illegal, and UK employment tribunals take a very dim view of employer misbehaviour.</text></comment>