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For the purpose of this reflection, let’s agree that what you deserve is to be paid the same as your counterparts. You likely deserve way more than you’re making, regardless of industry standards.
When I was 24 or 25, I was completing a temp assignment at a big midtown office on black women’s equal pay day. I thought to myself, I am obviously being paid fairly. There’s no way my white male coworker doing the exact same job is making more than me. There’s just no way.
And yet, he was. I asked him his hourly rate. It was $5 higher than mine.