The case for sharing your salary

分享薪资的论据

The Indicator from Planet Money

2026-10-21

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Should money and class figure more prominently in how we identify ourselves? Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist Mona Chalabi thinks yes. Today on the show, a conversation with Mona, author of the forthcoming book Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are. Fact checking by Sierra Juarez. Your Next Listen –Chasing the American Dream at Outback Steakhouse–Over 2,000 episodes in our archive on the NPR App Connect with The Indicator from Planet Money –The Indicator newsletter — a weekly roundup of news, ideas and staff picks. –Instagram, TikTok and YouTube –Find the Planet Money book –Find the Planet Money game, Sell Me A Sasquatch, and other merch at the NPR Shop! Support public media by subscribing to NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy
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  • This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

  • I'm Adrian Ma.

  • And I'm Ricky Mulvey.

  • And Ricky, if I asked you what class you consider yourself, like are you upper class, working class,

  • or middle class, what would you say?

  • I'd say I'm a part of podcasting small but mighty middle class.

  • How about you?

  • Small but mighty, that is us.

  • Also consider myself middle class?

  • And maybe that's not a very original answer

  • because according to a Gallup survey, 54% of Americans consider themselves middle class.

  • Let me ask you this, Ricky.

  • How much money do you make?

  • It's a pretty personal question for a very public podcast is what I would say.

  • Don't worry, it's just me, you, and our listeners here.

  • I make somewhere between $10 and $10 million, is what I would say, just to give you a fair range estimation.

  • Okay, well, thank you for narrowing that down for me.

  • I think you might detect just a slight change in the air when I suddenly ask that question,

  • because frankly, in our culture, talking about income is...

  • You know, we worry what others