Deep Redd Diaries

Woman Reveals Her High Salary At Family Dinner, SIL Breaks Down

Tonight, my fiance (26m) and I (26f) were at dinner with his family. He has a younger brother (18m) and an older sister (29f) who I will refer to as my SIL just because it's simpler. I've been working as a product manager at a big tech company since I got out of college five years ago. My salary has steadily climbed in the last couple of years so now I'm making a very large amount. However, I am a big proponent of salary transparency, especially as a woman in a male-dominated field. I've helped multiple people who were being underpaid negotiate higher salaries after sharing my salary history. I've also helped many younger college students who are looking to go into the industry by sharing my salary. So this evening, we were discussing the tech industry and how it's become such a popular field to go into. Both me and my fiance work in tech so we were offering our input from our own roles. My fiance's little brother is planning on studying computer science in college so he asked me, rather abruptly, how much I make as a PM. Since I believe in salary transparency, I went ahead and just said, "Well, after I got promoted to being a senior product manager a few months ago, my current salary is about $300,000." After I said that, my fiance's brother said "HOLYY SHIIIIT" really loudly and then congratulated me and called me impressive. I thanked him and told him that I'd be happy to help him when he starts looking for internships & jobs in college. However, then all of a sudden, my SIL starts sniffling and I look at her and she's wiping tears from her face. My future MIL starts to comfort her and is whispering something, and the whole table goes silent. I immediately apologize and asked what was wrong and she just said "it's just f__king hard seeing people make that much when I'm making $15/hour working my ass off 50 hours a week." She also said after that "some people really do get everything...