A New York City tech worker is going viral for learning a role with her job title was being advertised online and offering up to $90,000 more per year, thanks to a new salary transparency law in the city.
Kimberly Nguyen, 25, is a user experience writer on a contract basis for Citigroup and says she learned about the discrepancy when the company posted a job opening — with the same title as her current role — on LinkedIn. Because the company is hiring in NYC, which requires salary ranges on job listings, she saw that the intended pay for the new hire would be $32,000 to $90,000 more than her current salary.
So, she applied for the job.
She wrote on Twitter Tuesday: “My company just listed on LinkedIn a job posting for what I’m currently doing (so we’re hiring another UX writer) and now thanks to salary transparency laws, I see that they intend to pay this person $32k-$90k more than they currently pay me, so I applied.”
Different pay ranges for the same job title
Nguyen tells CNBC Make It she earns $85,000 per year working as a contractor with Citi, and that she was told at the time of hiring the position could be converted to a full-time role. The LinkedIn posting from Citi lists the full-time UX opening, requiring five to eight years of experience, as offering a salary of $117,200 to 175,800 per year. By Wednesday, the posting said the company is no longer accepting applications.
A Citi spokesperson tells CNBC Make It the company pays Photon, a contractor service, a market-competitive rate for their services, however Photon negotiates the individual’s pay rate. Photon did not return CNBC Make It’s request for comment.
The Citi spokesperson adds the company has listed pay ranges on all U.S. job ads since mid-October. The company caught heat in November, when the NYC law went into effect, for listing some jobs with a salary range of $0 to $2 million.
Nguyen says she has discussed her pay at work and has been asking for a raise “for months.”
She also tried to get a…
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