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Business Insider’s Global Editor-In-Chief wants to know your salary, but won’t reveal his

Nicholas Carlson, Global Editor-in-Chief of Business Insider, announced on Twitter that they were doing a series of articles that “demystifies people’s salaries” and asked people to report theirs.

Someone asked the inevitable question, and got a sadly unsurprising answer…

…and they’ve been roasting him ever since then:

The article does say at the beginning that they’re asking for people to anonymously submit their salary history, but if you get to the instructions, you’ll see that they’re using the term “anonymously” to mean something different:

If you are interested in sharing your salary journey, please send an email to Chris Weller at cweller@insider.com with your name, age, occupation, and a description of your salary journey. (This will remain 100% confidential. No information will ever be shared publicly.)

They are asking you to submit your salary history along with information that identifies you. That’s not anonymous. If they follow through on the promise not to share the information publicly — a promise not backed by any kind of legal agreement, by the way — the information will be confidential. But it will not be anonymous. And it will be confidential only for as long as whoever manages Business Insider chooses to keep that non-legally-binding promise.

The Twitter thread is still going strong as I write this, and if you’re looking for an amusing diversion this fine Thursday, I heartily recommend this one.

Joey deVilla

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