The Emotional Connection to Salary

Leah Kohn: What is it that keeps people so stuck on salary? She says career is integral to life, reflects how we spend our time and bring in resources. People have been raised to think about a dollar value in salary as a definition of success, she says. But dollars can live under long-term incentives, which can be stock options for stock in the future,. Those are dollars, right?Kohn: A lot of folks may not have had these kind of conversations. We're certainly not teaching it in college or high school.