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Scenario

How to navigate salary transparency with design colleagues without damaging relationships

The other designers in my cohort at this agency have all been talking about their salary negotiations and I realized I'm making significantly less than them for the same work. We're supposed to be collaborative but there's this weird competitive undercurrent now and I don't know if we should be sharing this information or if it's just making everything awkward between us.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional relationships are strained by the uncomfortable intersection of solidarity and self-interest when financial inequities are revealed.

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