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When Career Success Creates Guilt About Earning More

I got a big promotion and raise but now I feel guilty about making more than my coworkers who work just as hard and I do not know how to handle the awkwardness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Merit-based advancement can feel like betrayal of equals when success appears arbitrary rather than earned.

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