[haversine]

Agreed. I think this should have been anonymized outside of Buffer.

There are so many possibly repercussions with family, friends, and outsiders, in addition to the things brought up by other posters re: poaching, etc.

I personally wouldn't want my salary revealed publicly because my family would treat me differently as a result (I know this from experience).

If this idea spreads, it wouldn't be long before someone comes up with a way to API this data into something like LinkedIN or Monster. "Joe makes $100k at CompanyX - is it time for a change?"

Internally to the business though, this seems to have a lot of positives. I'll be interested to see how this evolves at Buffer.