Awards

  • Porchlight Business Book Awards, longlist 2021 (link)

  • Non-Obvious Book Awards, longlist 2021 (link)

  • The Financial Times & McKinsey & Company Bracken Bower Prize, shortlist 2018 (link)

Original Articles

  • Fast Company: “Why motivating employees through ‘startup salaries’ backfires for companies.” FAIR PAY excerpt (link)

  • MarketWatch: “I’ve set pay policies at big companies — here are 3 secrets to getting a raise.” (link)

Features & Interviews

  • Bloomberg: “Compensation Is Becoming an Even Bigger Headache in the Remote-Work Era” (link)

  • Charter, in partnership with TIME: “What People Are Paid Is About to Change” (link)

  • CNBC (link)

  • Come Write With Us: “How to Create A Fairer Workplace” (link)

  • Harvard Business Review: “How to Negotiate Your Salary in the Age of Pay Transparency Laws” (link)

  • Los Angeles Times: “You may soon be asked to take a pay cut to keep working from home” (link)

  • NPR Marketplace: “Employers get creative with inflation compensation” (link)

  • Protocol: “Pay audits catch your salary mistakes. Here's how to conduct one.” (link)

  • Publishers Weekly: “Pay Is a Function of Proximity to Power” (link)

  • Shepherd (book recommendations): “The best books on the importance of expecting less from your workplace” (link)

  • Wall Street Journal: “You’ve Got Another Job Offer. Here’s What to Tell Your Boss“ (link)

  • Wall Street Journal: “Big Raises Are Coming in 2022, So Make Your Game Plan Now” (link)

  • Wall Street Journal: “A Lot of People Are Getting Big Pay Raises. Here’s How to Get Yours.” (link)

  • Wall Street Journal: “How to Leverage a New Job Offer” (link)

  • Wall Street Journal: “Salary Ranges Bring Changes to the Job Hunt” (link)

  • Wall Street Journal: “You Found Out Your Co-Worker Makes More. Can You Ask for a Raise? (link)

Podcasts

  • All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett (link)

  • Brave New Work (link)

  • Business Bookshelf by Lance Peppler (link)

  • Career Contessa: September 2021 (link), March 2022 (link)

  • CFO Bookshelf (link)

  • The Chris Voss Show (link)

  • The Ins & Outs of Work (link)

  • Future of HR (link)

  • Maybe You’re Like Me (link)

  • Nobody Told Me with Jan Black & Laura Owens (link)

  • Out of the Comfort Zone with Wanda Wallace (link)

  • Pay Matters with David Weaver (link)

  • Punk Rock HR with Laurie Ruettimann (link)

  • Trend Following Radio with Michael Covel (link)

  • See Events tab for video

Book Reviews

Publisher’s Weekly (Starred Review & PW Pick of the Week)

"Buckmaster packs his work with insight, and delivers his message in a charming, funny tone . . .This layperson's guide will be a boon to anyone looking to understand the forces behind how that number got on their W-2." (Full review)

Porchlight (Staff Pick)

"We used to have a standard nomenclature around here for different kinds of books—“nuts and bolts” for traditional business management, best practices, change management, and the like, and “big picture” for books on the overall environment business exists within, big ideas, and societal change. We’ve evolved away from those easy descriptions as the genre has evolved and expanded over the past 20 years, but I don’t know if I’ve ever come across a book that checks off both categories so thoroughly . . . his book is a perfect nuts-and-bolts, big picture place to start." (Full review)

Charter (formerly Reset Work)

“The bottom line is that Fair Pay is an important, insider perspective on the principles and tactics needed for more equitable and dynamic organizations. There has been too much inertia around compensation practices, and this current moment of progress on worker wages hopefully also creates an opening for Buckmaster’s recommendations.” (Full Review)

Booklist

"Fair Pay . . . offer[s] deeply informed insight into how companies set pay rates . . . A thought-provoking counterpoint to typical fair-pay books." (Full review)

AudioFile Magazine

“Narrator Joe Knezevich's boyish tone and gee-whiz optimism may seem out of sync with the dire realities of widening pay gaps and weakened employee bargaining power. But his vocal character is perfect for the author's intent--to help workers negotiate fair pay for themselves and become more knowledgeable about how business and our economy work. Knezevich has a broad and appealing range, and is fun to hear as he interprets every nuance and idea in this accessible guide.” (Full review)