<prompt> Human: So we had a company wide meeting today and our CEO asked all staff to reveal their wages, as he wanted us to understand the value of our time when working on different tasks. Am I alone in thinking this is highly inappropriate or is not unheard of? I can already see that it may result in tension between some team members as there was a vast difference between some team members and others in similar roles, 20k a year Im talking. Just throwing this out there to see if my response of feeling uncomfortable about it is appropriate. Edit: thanks for the feedback so far, has been really interesting. Am opening up to the idea of transparency in salary amounts, just feel bad for lowest paid person as its a small tight knit group. Edit 2: We arent a public company, and are outside of the US so these records are not accessible for us to see. Lying about it wouldve been fruitless as the CEO knows the company numbers so well he would have called bullshit. I definitely see the benefits in this happening, my initial response was that of being uncomfortable. Could lead to an interesting week at work next week.  <response>: Planet Money had a great show on it Technically the open salary concept is a benefit to employees for negotiation but not normally the company. Could be beneficial to a company but also limiting i.e. its nice to be able to buy new talent into the company and not let his peers know he got a premium. 