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\"Feature<\/a>Is sharing pay information a good idea? What happens when companies share more about how they pay their people?<\/p>\n

So-called pay transparency<\/em><\/a> refers to company policies that encourage the sharing of compensation-related information, such as salary ranges, pay scales, and compensation structures. This information may be supplied to current employees, job candidates, or the public. If current trends continue, by 2026, about half of U.S. employees<\/a> will work for companies that practice some degree of pay transparency.<\/p>\n

It seems that greater pay transparency would reduce unfair or discriminatory compensation policies, and there is some evidence that it helps. But the Harvard Business Review<\/em> article \u201cThe Complicated Effects of Pay Transparency<\/a>\u201d lists a set of potential downsides of increased pay transparency that research has revealed. For example, pay transparency can lower employees\u2019 relative bargaining power and can detach pay from performance, leading to potential consequences for productivity and turnover. Furthermore, when pay transparency reveals unfair compensation decisions, employee morale declines.<\/p>\n

How has pay transparency affected the UX profession? We have some data from the 2024 UXPA salary survey<\/a> to help us assess UX practitioners\u2019 attitudes toward pay transparency.<\/p>\n

The 2024 UXPA Salary Survey<\/span><\/h2>\n

In 2024, we continue a decades-long tradition by partnering with the UXPA to collect and understand the UX profession\u2019s compensation<\/a>, skills, and composition.<\/p>\n

The survey data came from respondents recruited through postings on professional networks and websites such as UXPA and LinkedIn. Additional respondents were recruited through snowball sampling. The survey ran from April through October 2024, and the final sample size was 444 respondents from around the world (67% from the U.S., 4% from the UK, 4% from Canada, and smaller percentages from 34 other countries). Most respondents reported being User Researchers (64%) and User Experience Designers (31%).<\/p>\n

The core salary questions in the survey remain consistent across administrations, but each survey also includes a set of custom items. In the 2024 survey, those custom items, shown in Figure 1, included three on the topic of pay transparency to estimate the range of pay transparency, satisfaction with pay transparency, and satisfaction with the fairness of compensation decisions (n<\/em> =\u00a0383 who responded to these questions).<\/p>\n

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Figure 1:<\/strong> The pay transparency items from the 2024 UXPA salary survey (created on the MUiQ<\/a>\u00ae<\/sup> platform).<\/p>\n

Pay Transparency Scope<\/span><\/h2>\n

Table 1 shows the percentages of responses to the select-all-that-apply question about different types of pay transparency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Scope of Pay Transparency<\/strong><\/th>\n\u2007\u2007%<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Key executives<\/td>\n\u20076%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anyone in my company<\/td>\n\u20077%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anyone on my team<\/td>\n10%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New job postings<\/td>\n24%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
None of these<\/td>\n49%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Table 1:<\/strong> Scope of UX practitioners\u2019 pay transparency.<\/p>\n

Roughly half (51%) of respondents reported working for a company with at least some pay transparency (consistent with published estimates for all U.S. employees), with the most common category being new job postings (24%).<\/p>\n

Low Satisfaction with Pay Transparency and Pay Decisions<\/span><\/h2>\n

We next analyzed the responses to the two questions that asked respondents about their satisfaction with pay transparency and compensation decisions. As shown in Figure 2, ratings were low <\/strong>for satisfaction with pay transparency and fairness of compensation decisions, with both failing to pass the midpoint of the scale\u20143.9 for satisfaction with pay transparency and 4.7 for satisfaction that compensation decisions are fair.<\/p>\n

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Figure 2:<\/strong> UX practitioners\u2019 satisfaction with pay transparency and fairness.<\/p>\n

To dig deeper into how job transparency might affect these satisfaction ratings, we split the sample between respondents who reported having some type of pay transparency and those who responded \u201cNone of these\u201d on the select-all-that-apply item (Figure 3). Those who had some pay transparency had significantly higher satisfaction ratings than those who did not<\/strong> (Pay Transparency: t<\/em>(381) =\u00a07.0, p<\/em> <\u00a0.0001; Fair Compensation Decisions: t<\/em>(381) =\u00a04.5, p<\/em> <\u00a0.0001).<\/p>\n

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Figure 3:<\/strong> Satisfaction with pay transparency and fairness as a function of pay transparency scope.<\/p>\n

Pay Transparency and Fairness Associated with Higher Job Satisfaction<\/span><\/h2>\n

Finally, we computed correlations between satisfaction with pay transparency, compensation fairness, and overall job satisfaction, with the results shown in Table 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Correlation between<\/th>\n\u2007\u2007r<\/i><\/th>\n\u2007R<\/i>2<\/sup><\/th>\n\u2007\u2007p<\/i><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Pay Transparency and Fair Compensation<\/td>\n0.704<\/td>\n50%<\/td>\n< .0001<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pay Transparency and Job Satisfaction<\/td>\n0.333<\/td>\n11%<\/td>\n< .0001<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fair Compensation and Job Satisfaction<\/td>\n0.438<\/td>\n23%<\/td>\n< .0001<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Table 2:<\/strong> Correlations among pay transparency, compensation fairness, and overall job satisfaction.<\/p>\n

For this set of satisfaction ratings, we found:<\/p>\n