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When couples discover wage gaps between themselves at work

My partner and I both work at the same tech company and we just found out that I make 30% more than them for basically the same work and now we're both angry but at different things and we don't know how to talk about it without it becoming about our relationship instead of the unfairness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A pay inequity discovery has created a complex tangle of workplace injustice, relationship dynamics, and the question of whether to act collectively or individually.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Labor economics — how wages are set?”

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