Development organizations face calls for more salary transparency

For global development professionals like Allwell Akhigbe, knowing what an available position pays in advance is more than just convenient information to have.

Akhigbe, a nonprofit business development specialist, recently accepted a new role that required a move from a town in Nigeria to its capital city, Abuja. The employer’s pay transparency was a major factor in his decision to apply because of having to plan for the change in cost of living that such a move would require.

“If that employer hadn’t put the salary on the advert, I wouldn’t have seen it as any different from the volunteering I was already doing,” he said, adding, “I would definitely have passed up on it.”