Know Your Worth, Get Your Worth: Salary Negotiation For Women [Book Review]

While it’s disheartening to read women still earn $.80 in the workplace for each $1 earned by a man, women are not powerless to change their own earning situation.

Olivia Jaras, who wrote Know Your Worth, Get Your Worth: Salary Negotiation For Women is a salary negotiation expert whose passion is helping women receive fair compensation for the work they do.

Jaras, originally from Santiago, Chile, became keenly aware of social imbalances in the work world after moving to the US in college. She spent the better part of a decade setting salaries at companies, public and private.

After a few years, she noticed that though she worked hard to be unbiased, she often offered female candidates compensation falling on the low end of the pay scale. She realized many women didn’t try to negotiate their salaries, instead accepting the first salary offer.

This led Jaras to found the company Salary Coaching LLC, a company she runs out of Hanover, New Hampshire. The company’s focus is to help women successfully negotiate and earn more in the workplace.

Know Your Worth, Get Your Worth is a compendium of advice, specific tips, and information for women about how to navigate the entire negotiation process at work. The book is specifically written for anyone who “suspects they’re underpaid” or “for anyone who wants to grow their career.”