Salary Transparency
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
The practice of making compensation ranges or actual pay visible to employees, candidates, or the public instead of treating them as private or opaque. In tech, salary transparency is tied to debates about fairness, negotiation asymmetry, and legal compliance.
In plain English: Making pay information open instead of keeping it hidden.
Example: "Salary transparency made promotion discussions less political because the bands were visible."