How the Army’s pay structure inspired this CEO to introduce pay transparency

Roxanne Petraeus, the CEO of HR compliance training startup Ethena, shares how her background in the Army shaped her approach to pay transparency.

Years before starting Ethena, an HR compliance training startup, Roxanne Petraeus had a taste of what it was like to be in a workplace with radical pay transparency. Petraeus spent the first part of her career in the U.S. Army, where the pay scale is determined by rank and time in service—and made completely public. “That’s how I actually entered the workforce,” she says. “I didn’t think that much about different models, because the first seven years of my career was in an organization that had pay transparency.”

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