06.06.25
When it comes to job advertisements in PR and Comms, there are very few companies who choose to disclose salary information. Despite the strides made towards inclusivity in recent years, there is a lack of action in the area of salary transparency. Despite ties to pay inequality and reduced accessibility to the industry, ‘competitive’ salaries continue to dominate the majority of job ads.
But there is hope for jobseekers yet. Spearheaded by Jo Tidball, We Show the Salary is a grassroots movement calling for a radical shift towards salary transparency. In it’s first couple of months, the campaign has received incredible support from companies across all industries – noteably including some of London’s leading PR agencies. One of these agencies is Milk & Honey PR.
To help spread the word far and wide, we asked Milk & Honey’s Founder and Group CEO Kirsty Leighton a few questions on her motivation behind signing the pledge, and her advice to fellow PR agencies interested in championing salary transparency.
We believe that it is critical to ensure potential applicants know what they are going after.
In our industry there are a multitude of titles and very often this can be confusing, so salary brings clarity.
I’d rather hope that it is now becoming an expectation, but for some reason some organisations are coy about sharing salaries. We are transparent with banding both inside the company and outside. If someone with the same experience joins our business above someone already on the team we automatically adjust.
What are you afraid of? If you have inequalities inside, sort that out first before bringing in any new talent. Make salary transparency a principle you live by. Pay all ages, genders, races, equally for doing the same job.
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Interested in finding out more about the We Show the Salary movement? Head to www.weshowthesalary.org.uk to discover who’s signed up, and how you can get involved.