The Company Where Everybody Knows What You Make

After years of pay secrecy, Fog Creek has revealed the salaries of all its employees.

Illustrator: Cari Vander Yacht

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Women in general don't earn as much as men do, and there's plenty of economic data to prove it. At the same time, there's almost no data to know whether any individual woman is underpaid. Most companies don’t openly share salary information; nor do most employees. Without that knowledge, how can anyone—male or female—be sure they’re fairly compensated?