Art Dirt: Radical Transparency & the Arts Salary Spreadsheet

by Glasstire June 9, 2019
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In this Art Dirt podcast, Brandon Zech and Christina Rees talk about the radical transparency of a week-old, anonymous spreadsheet that discloses the salaries of museum, non-profit, and gallery workers.

“Historically it’s been gauche to talk about how much you make, and it’s taboo to ask your co-workers how much they make. That’s about the protection of employers, not employees.”

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Related reading:
Anonymous Spreadsheet Reveals Salaries of Museum and Nonprofit Workers
The Professional Organization for Women in the Arts
AAM2019 Keynote: Kippen de Alba Chu and Kimberly Drew
Museum Association: Salary Guidelines 2017
Association of Art Museum Directors 2017 Salary Survey

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Robert Boyd June 9, 2019 - 19:31

If anyone wants to do statistical comparisons by race or gender, the relatively easy way to do it is to copy this worksheet into Excel and do pivot tables. That would be where I would start, although with any large tabular dataset like this, there is some massaging that can be done to make it more comprehensible.

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