Is It So Hard for Us to Talk About Our Pay?

People don't necessarily talk about their salaries, even their hourly wages. Why is it so hard for us to talk about how much we're making and find out what other people are making? One answer is that many of our employers not only don't want us talking about our pay, but actually prevent us from talking about our p So we know from some research and surveys tat i've participated in, that about two thirds of workers who do not belong to a labor union,. who work in the private sector, as most do - are subject to what we term a pay secrecy policy of some sort. These are rules, in formal or formal, that prevent workers from talking about their pay