[ergothus]

I worked for the State of Virginia a some years ago, and at least two years running the local paper did a FOIA request for everyone's salaries and then published anyone earning above the median in a searchable database. ( http://www.richmond.com/data-center/salaries-virginia-state-... )

Many of my coworkers were upset, but the only real practical result I saw was that some people that were underpaid relative to their peers had evidence of it, and those that were overpaid relative to their peers were held to more responsibilities by others.

On the whole my experience was positive with it. (That said, your point that we have varying levels of "justice" is completely valid).

[conanbatt]

I am an advocate for open salaries, because it eliminates or helps to eliminate the information asymmetry between employers and employees, that absolutely favors the former. Partially giving this information just deepends the information asymmetry between colleagues.