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Clearing the Air

How to do salary transparency right
YOU SHOW ME YOURS AND I’LL SHOW YOU MINE Make sure your company’s culture is ready for this much honesty.

THERE ARE MANY nontraditional policies at Namasté Solar, an 11-year-old designer and installer of solar energy systems that’s based in Boulder, Colorado. But it’s not Namasté’s commitments to sustainability and democratic decision making that evoke a reaction when co-founder Blake Jones confers with fellow CEOs. What gets them talking, he says, is salary transparency.

“A lot of other CEOs are shocked,” Jones

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