• Pollen was an events tech startup founded in 2015, which raised more than $200M in funding and employed about 600 people by 2022.
• After a series of layoffs, the company ran out of money and entered administration last August, leaving employees unpaid.
• Pollen implemented pay transparency, allowing employees to view compensation details for every role at the company.
• This article dissects the pay transparency report, covering Pollen’s compensation philosophy, tech compensation numbers, regional pay differences, highest and lowest-paid roles, budgets by organization, and inspiration to take from the report.
• Subscribers have access to a cleaned and browsable version of the data set, with 18 diagrams analyzing the data.
Published January 12, 2023. Visit The Pragmatic Engineer to read Gergely Orosz’s original post.
