Salary $hare: Wonder What Your Co-Workers Make?

April 18, 2011— -- Admit it. You've been dying to know your cube mates' salaries since your first day on the job.

Thanks to a new website called SalaryShare.com you can find out what your co-workers and friends make while minimizing the inevitable awkwardness.

The site lets users create an anonymous salary pool that can be shared with anyone online. Once four people have submitted their salaries through the private link, SalaryShare reveals a list of the salaries without disclosing whom they belong to.

"Ever wondered how your salary compared to your friends or co-workers? Now you can do it while protecting everyone's privacy and have fun at the same time!" the site says.

The website was launched by the folks behind Job4Dev, an online job board, and was inspired by a conversation thread on Hacker News, a popular technology forum, according to a note at the bottom of the site.

The creators of the site did not immediately respond to requests for comment from ABCNews.com.

Blog Post Sparks Discussion on 'Taboo' of Salary Disclosure

The online discussion was sparked by a blog post called "The Programmer Salary Taboo," which looked at why salary disclosure is such "a uniquely taboo subject."

"Since I'm about a month away from being done with University and entering the programmer workforce, I've taken to asking my classmates what type of starting salaries they're getting at their first jobs," wrote Derek Thurn. "The first thing I discovered is that not everybody is very comfortable with this question, and many companies are even less so."

Thurn's post and the lively conversation that focused on salary secrecy in the tech industry, but discomfort about salary disclosure is hardly limited to the tech world.