etincelleux:

brianadeshe:

annakie:

micdotcom:

Watch: It’s your right to share your salary, and 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, for any Americans: it is illegal for your employer to forbid you from talking about your pay with coworkers. You have a legal right to discuss working conditions (including wages) with your coworkers under the NLRA.