Underpaid? This App Wants to Make it Easier for Employers to Poach You

By Published on October 7, 2015

The taboo against discussing wages has been weakened by sites like Glassdoor, which allow employees to anonymously report their salaries, and some argue that salary transparency could be the key to ending the gender pay gap.

Now, a new app called Wagespot plots salaries on a map like Zillow plots home prices.

The app, which launches on Tuesday, for now has scant data; its founders seeded the map using public salaries of government employees, professional athletes, and CEOs. But all workers can now enter their incomes in the database. They’ll have options to indicate how much experience they have, along with their genders, ages, industries, companies, job satisfaction, and commute times — some of this criteria that any user can filter to search for anonymized salary information.

Read the article “Underpaid? This App Wants to Make it Easier for Employers to Poach You” on fastcompany.com.

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