Needs-Based Salaries Are Upending Workplace Norms

Anthony Jarrett is the lowest-paid member of Public Interest Research Center's six-person staffbut that doesn't mean he's losing out on any money.

The nonprofit in Wales, UK, is giving all of its employees the same core salary, plus "uplifts" for things like housing and health care, the Guardian reports.

"I'm not marginalized in any way," says Jarrett, who's been with PIRC since 2009.

"I would have been the best-paid by far."

PIRC's new policy, implemented in 2022, has "totally reversed" gender pay norms, Jarrett says.

It's also one of a growing number of organizations challenging conventional ways of paying workers.

"Implementing such changes requires unusual levels of trust, patience, and whole commitment from all involved," Moneyful reports.

"This was not what this was about," says Jarrett.

"I'm fine with that, as long as my pay doesn't decrease in fact, it has gone up, as the charity has been gradually increasing core rates."

The uplifts are available to employees with financial dependents or who live in a city, since workers can work remotely.

PIRC's founder, Francesca Pick, says the policy may have

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