Openness about Pay
All the people surveyed, regardless of whether they had ever had paid work, were asked five questions relating to issues of openness about pay. Respondents were most strongly in favour of employers having to have clear rules about how salary levels, promotions and pay increases are decided and of job applicants being able know the pay brackets for the post they are seeking before they get to the interview stage (92% and 67% respectively). Almost two thirds of respondents (64%) thought that employees should be able to get from their employer written information about average earnings of people doing the same or equivalent work, broken down according to sex. A majority were of the opinion that employers should not be able to ban their employees from sharing information about their pay (66%) or ask job applicants about previous pay (58%).
