A woman went viral after taking to the street and asking strangers to disclose their jobs and salaries, leading many users to realize they are being underpaid.
The video, posted by Hannah Williams who runs @salarytransparentstreet, received more than 2.5 million views and nearly 3,000 comments since Saturday evening.
Salary transparency is a strategy in which individuals openly share their job and salary and benefits to provide other individuals with similar jobs to be aware of how much they could or should be making.
In a Global Survey conducted by GlassDoor, 72 percent of employees surveyed around the world believe wage transparency is good for business and 70 percent believe it can increase employee satisfaction.
Many also believe discussing salaries openly is a critical step in ensuring people have a baseline knowledge of what others in the field are making in order to negotiate with an employer.
"This is salary transparentstreet. We're in Georgetown, Washington D.C. and today we're going to ask people what they do and how much they make," the woman in the TikTok said as she walked down the street.
The first individual she interviewed said he worked in IT, information technology, and that he makes about $70,000 a year.
The second interviewee on the street said she was a lifeguard and that she makes $15 an hour. Another woman said she "worked for the government" and made $76,000.
Next was a contractor making $96,000 and a research scientist at the Smithsonian...
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