| Title | Norway: The Country Where no Salaries are Secret | |
| Date | Sunday July 23 2017, @11:56PM | |
| Author | Fnord666 | |
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| from the I-know-what-you-make dept. | ||
Submitted via IRC for Bytram
This week the British papers revelled in news about how much the BBC's on-air stars get paid, though the salaries of their counterparts in commercial TV remain under wraps. In Norway, there are no such secrets. Anyone can find out how much anyone else is paid - and it rarely causes problems.
In the past, your salary was published in a book. A list of everyone's income, assets and the tax they had paid, could be found on a shelf in the public library. These days, the information is online, just a few keystrokes away. The change happened in 2001, and it had an instant impact.
"It became pure entertainment for many," says Tom Staavi, a former economics editor at the national daily, VG.
"At one stage you would automatically be told what your Facebook friends had earned, simply by logging on to Facebook. It was getting ridiculous."
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40669239
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