Ladies, have you ever been paid less than a man for the exact same job?
Almost nobody gets told they're being paid less. They find out by accident. A payroll glitch, a document left on a printer, an employee contract fo...
Big Conversations
The topics nobody raises at work, answered by corporate Australia in anonymous polls and written up with the numbers and the quotes.
Almost nobody gets told they're being paid less. They find out by accident. A payroll glitch, a document left on a printer, an employee contract fo...
This conversation happens in every company, every year. So how do you go about it?
The Aussie Corporate 2026 Salary Survey.
The Big Conversation is a weekly anonymous poll of corporate Australia on the topics nobody raises at work: pay rises, parental leave, the pay gap and life in the office. Each one is written up with the numbers and the best answers, word for word, in Flat White and here.
Polls average 15K responses.
Topics come from what the community sends us: submissions, tips and questions in Instagram messages.
We put the question to our followers as an anonymous Instagram poll and collect the answers.
The results go out in Flat White and on this page, with the best answers word for word. Never a name.
Fridge thieves, work drinks, impossible job ads and whatever happened in the new bathrooms. A few of the submissions we have posted, as they went out.

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