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Should you say how much you make?

Bronx posted on Mar 16, 2008 | views: 433 | Tags: income, privacy, keeping secrets, pay info, money, salary
It's very easy to brag or whine about how much you are paid or underpaid - very few people complain about overpay, especially when it comes as part of a bonus package.

However, should the actual amount be divulged? Would you tell your spouse, SO, friends, siblings, and/or parents your take home pay and salary package or wages?

Telling, IMHO, seems to affect the emotion of the listener - seems to bring out the beast in most people when it's big - in terms of expectations, greed, envy, jealousy, and you name it.

If it's small, sympathy may not always be the reaction - ridicule could follow.

 How do you feel?


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  • SeanRenaud said on Mar 16, 2008....
    Yes without a doubt.  Your Spouse/ SO deserves to know how much money they have.   Certainly a spouse does.  A SO depends on the level of seriousness I would say that if you two live together and share expenses they have a right to know.  Friends, siblings and parents no so much.  You might give them a ball park figure but it really isn't any of their bussiness assuming you aren't living together and contributing to the household, again if they are depending on you to handle a bill they should be able to know you can handle your half or what not.
  • silverwhisper said on Mar 16, 2008....
    i'm eminently OK w/ my wife--i wouldn't make such decisions (accepting a job or no) w/out her input. similarly, within my family, we're very open about such things. my in-laws are a bit different, though. outside of family, i never discuss numbers, no matter how close the friend, though. ever.

    ed
  • bluegum said on Mar 16, 2008....
    there are no money secrets between me and my wife idont ask about our kids incomes and they dont ask about mine ,though they ask us about our opinion from time to time on a money matter .
  • Bronx said on Mar 17, 2008....
    SR: hi...on a need to know basis, I guess - as the secret services would say, on TV anyway.... ha-ha. sw: yes, in-laws would look askance at such talk, wouldn't they - even if the wifey's old man is not loaded, right? I agree with you about keeping friends at arms length with respect to how much you are paid. bluegum: hi....you're lucky, IMHO.
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