Brian Laird on WNYC, and we're going to end today's show with your calls on pay transparency in your workplace.

Here's our question for you today.

Listeners, have you ever had a conversation with a colleague about compensation that surprised

you or even led you to take action?

Have salary discussions ever rock the boat in your workplace?

212-433 WNYC, 212, 433, 9692.

Have you ever been surprised by a coworker salary,

and what was surprising about it?

Also, how did you learn about it?

Maybe a conversation with a colleague about compensation

that surprised you and in the context of something

that rocked the boat in your workplace.

212-433, WNYC, 433-962. Why do we ask? Because of a story in business insider that people have been talking about

that contained leaked salary information from Microsoft.

It was a spreadsheet circulating amongst employees there.

It contained more than 850 self-submitted entries, detailing compensation packages,

salaries, bonuses, stock awards, even though it's just a small segment of Microsoft's vast workforce

participating in this effort, the concept of a document like that is really interesting,

right? Imagine being able to see all of a sudden how your salary compares to your other,

to others in your office, who may be doing similar work, or even if they're doing

different work, what your kinds of work presents the company in terms of monetary value as they

see it. So if we have any listeners who work for Microsoft, please let us know if this has come

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