Pay transparency has drawn substantial attention from scholars in recent years, resulting in an expanding body of knowledge on this important topic. However, the literature has developed in a fragmented manner with an array of labels and conceptualizations across several largely disconnected dimensions. Pay transparency measurement scales have also emerged in a piecemeal fashion and lack cohesion in the operationalization of pay transparency dimensions. The current research develops a more cohesive and comprehensive multi-dimensional pay transparency framework and measurement scale. The paper reviews and integrates the pay transparency literature into a coherent, multi-dimensional framework founded on employee awareness perceptions of pay information rather than on objective organizational actions or employee behaviors. Following established scale development techniques, the present study creates and validates a multi-dimensional pay information awareness scale that may serve to facilitate future research on pay transparency. Implications are discussed, along with limitations and directions for future research.
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