![]() ![]() “But that doesn’t solve the fact that someone internally is now still going to make +$32K more” than her. We’re asking employers to dream beyond doing the bare minimum for their employees.’ ” - Kimberly NguyenĪccording to Nguyen, her employer later told her and the other contracted UX writers that the job listing was supposed to be an internal posting and external candidates weren’t meant to apply, “because public companies legally have to post jobs even if it’s an internal conversion,” she tweeted. “‘The American work landscape is shifting, and young people are really leading the charge. “My company just listed on LinkedIn a job posting for what I’m currently doing … and now thanks to salary transparency laws, I see that they intend to pay this person $32K-$90K more than they currently pay me,” she tweeted. Nguyen vented her frustration in a Twitter thread on March 7. But I’m not expecting them to give me what I asked for.”Įspecially now that she’s become the latest poster child for pay transparency. “They’ve put me through this whole performance review process and have pushed back the date they said I would hear back. So Nguyen said she sent the data she found about UX writer salaries to Photon, “and actually asked for less than the market rate to seem amenable,” she said. “I’ve been here since October, and I was told that it was a contractor to perm (permanent) position, that the eventual goal is to convert everyone to a full-time employee at Citibank.” “It’s a weird no-man’s-land where I show up to Citi and do all my work there, but Photon is the one who handles my benefits and paychecks,” she explained. She said that her Citi managers have been supportive, but as noted already, her pay is handled by Photon, which has been less responsive. Nguyen said that she had been trying to negotiate a pay raise for some time before, after researching what UX writers make in New York City and realizing that “there was not a single UX writer job that listed their pay range anything close to what I’m making now.” They publicized the number.’ ” - Kimberly Nguyen … Now I’m an even stronger advocate, because now it’s my own company’s word against themselves. ![]() ![]() “‘I have always been a strong advocate of pay transparency laws. ![]()
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