Pay Me What I’m Worth, Or Leave This Black Woman Alone

Brittinee Phillips
11 min readAug 3, 2021

A reflection and disclosure of one Black woman’s life chasing the bag

Photo by Dziana Hasanbekava from Pexels

In recognition of Black Women’s Equal Pay Day 2021, I’m disclosing my salary from the past 11 years. My first full time salaried role was in 2010. As a Black cisgender woman, who has mentees and many women of color who contact me because of my transparency on LinkedIn, I’m tired of gatekeepers—white…

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