My Salary History Is None of Your Business
4 min readAug 14, 2020
Why Not Revealing Your Earning Power Nets You More Earning Power
In my first interview out of grad school, I was required to reveal my “prior salary.” I had been working in a parallel job field, but I was new to the workforce. I reluctantly told my potential new employer what I was making, but I felt the question was unfair, since my job history was sparse.
