"I didn’t really do enough research to see what different salaries in different industries should look like (for instance, the salary I am making now at a startup is lower than a digital agency but much higher than if I went back into editorial) and wasn’t aware of those nuances. It wasn’t until I started looking at the numbers that I realized I had been underpaid for years, and it was something I could have solved earlier on with tools like Glassdoor.