When it comes to talking about pay, younger workers are breaking old taboos—and changing workplace culture in the process.

A new survey by Kickresume, which polled 1,850 anonymous employees worldwide, found that only 31 percent of people say salary is openly discussed at their job, while 37 percent work somewhere that explicitly bans talking about pay. But the way people feel about discussing pay varies greatly between the generations, too.

Gen Z Is Talking About Salaries

Nearly 40 percent of Gen Z respondents say salary is openly discussed at work—almost double the rate of Gen X, where just 22 percent report the same.

Younger workers also seem more willing to defy pay silence: 18 percent of Gen Z said they have talked salary, even when it wasn’t technically allowed. In contrast, 1 in

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