We Care Less About What We’re Paid Than Why

Salary transparency is more important to job satisfaction than getting paid a market rate, a new survey finds.

Photographer: Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg

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You’re probably getting paid better than you think you are. If only you knew it.

Whether our jobs pay us fairly matters a lot less to us than how well we feel we’re getting paid, a new survey has found—and because we’re in the dark about why, exactly, we’re paid what we are, most of us think we’re getting underpaid.