Leak of Microsoft Salaries Shows Fight for Higher Compensation

The numbers range from $40,000 to $320,000 and reveal key details about how pay works at big tech companies

Dave Gershgorn
OneZero
Published in
6 min readSep 13, 2019

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NNearly 400 Microsoft employees are sharing their salaries with each other to better determine whether they’re being fairly compensated.

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Dave Gershgorn
OneZero

Senior Writer at OneZero covering surveillance, facial recognition, DIY tech, and artificial intelligence. Previously: Qz, PopSci, and NYTimes.