Katherine G. L. Deans
Managing Partner, Deans & Company
Katherine Deans is the managing partner at Deans & Company, a consultancy that focuses on pay equity and corporate governance.
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Investments / Wealth Building
Is Wage Transparency Closing the Pay Gap — or Just Creating New Resentments Without Fixing the Underlying Problem?Wage transparency can expose pay gaps, but publishing salary numbers doesn't automatically eliminate the reasons those gaps exist. Salary ranges can give employees more bargaining power and make unexplained disparities harder to hide, but transparency without clear criteria for compensation can also create resentment. The real test isn't whether companies reveal the numbers—it's whether they can explain, justify, and consistently apply the system behind them.