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S2E48: Pay transparency: what to do after finding out a colleague’s salary is higher than yours

17 de agosto de 2026 · 31 min

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Would you reveal your salary to your colleagues? What to do if you are underpaid?

In this episode, ST’s own manpower correspondent Sharon Salim talks about navigating conversations around salary transparency and how being too transparent can affect workplace dynamics.

Hosts Kai Wen and Sue-Ann discuss transparency being crucial to benchmarking against peers in the same industry, and whether firms discourage employees from salary transparency to maintain an advantage in salary negotiations.

Highlights (click/tap above):

0:00: Intro

3:55 Utilising salary guides & public sector disparity

7:58 The impact on workplace dynamics

11:52 Downsides of transparency

15:34 Job interviews to check “market rate”

19:59 Is sharing your salary against rules

23:29 Negotiating a pay raise

27:42 Track your monthly career milestones

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Hosts: See Kai Wen ([email protected]) and Sue-Ann Tan ([email protected])

Produced & edited by: Eden Soh, Fa’izah Sani and Amirul Karim

Executive producer: Elizabeth Law

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