People need to be ok with talking about it, but at the same time, it still should ultimately be each person's choice to talk about it.
[$67/hr, 2 years of experience, senior frontend engineer, Palo Alto]
[$67/hr, 2 years of experience, senior frontend engineer, Palo Alto]
If OTOH you're not billing 160 hours a month or you're not getting the standard benefits (healthcare, etc), then you're contracting whether you describe yourself as a contractor or not, so the objection would stand in that case.
(This distinction made for the benefits of other HNers, since I have from time-to-time run into people who think they are employees but who are actually consultants who just happen to have a very thin client list and substandard rates.)
Personally, I'm at the point where I don't care as much about the money, it's more about the people I work with. For those not at my point though is why I provide salary info though - it is a nice data point to use to assess for others.
[$46/hr, 5 years of experience, Software Engineer, Boston]