A Step-by-Step Guide to Talking About Salary With Your Co-Workers

How to initiate an awkward but necessary conversation

Erin Lowry
Forge
Published in
7 min readFeb 1, 2019

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“Please don’t share that you got a bonus,” my manager whispered to me in the same sort of lowered voice usually reserved for the juiciest office gossip. I was just leaving the one-on-one meeting where I’d gotten the good news — one of several such bonus-related…

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Erin Lowry
Forge
Writer for

Writer, speaker, and author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together and Broke Millennial Takes On Investing.