Navigating the New Office: Pay Transparency

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It’s the fifth week of our series, Navigating the New Office. This week, we’re doing a deep dive on a hot button topic: Pay Transparency - actually talking about what you make. This week, we learn what prompted our LinkedIn colleague McKenna to disclose what she really makes, why Hannah Williams started her viral TikTok, Salary Transparent Street, and how we can be better advocates for better bottom lines. Follow McKenna Moore on LinkedIn Follow Hannah Williams on LinkedIn and check out Salary Transparent Street Follow Allison Venditti on Linkedin and visit Moms At Work Follow Jessi Hempel and Sarah Storm on LinkedIn Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET on the LinkedIn News page.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ryan Roslansky, the CEO of LinkedIn. Listen to my new podcast, The Path.
0:05.0	Discover how today's greatest leader shaped their unique career paths and the lessons they learned along the way.
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0:14.0	LinkedIn News
0:20.0	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jessie Hempel and I'm Sarah Storm.
0:24.0	And this is Hello Monday.
0:31.0	Not long ago, I was scrolling through LinkedIn when I landed on a post from a colleague, McKenna Moore.
0:38.0	It was blowing up.
0:40.0	In the post, McKenna talked about how much she got paid.
0:43.0	And I have to say, it made me squirm.
0:46.0	Because when I started my career, pay was something you just didn't talk about at all.
0:51.0	To your friends or your colleagues.
0:53.0	So I called at McKenna and I asked her, straight,
0:57.0	why did you post on pay transparency?
1:00.0	Why did you feel so comfortable doing that?
1:02.0	I mean, in all caps, no less, it's not your style.
1:06.0	Yeah, no, not typically.
1:08.0	No, but that was the only thing in all caps.
1:10.0	But what you did do was you described your own personal journey, your first paychecks at Fortune,
1:15.0	which were, I'm just going to say it somewhat abysmal for the work that you were doing.
1:20.0	And then you announced your salary at LinkedIn, the place we both work on LinkedIn.
1:26.0	And I thought, whoa.
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