Nope. Youre making a mountain out of an ant hill. The company probably has to mark your pay info as confidential. It's your personal info, if you want to share it you can, just like medical info. Unless it's company policy to post everyone's pay publicly. In that case, everyone's pay would be posted, but if not, they can't tell others, but you can.
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
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Confidential for them to tell other people what your pay is.
Completely free for you to say what it is if you choose to.
Dno if that changes if you're a contractor of some kind.
just my 2 cents. youre being oversensitive. marking 'confidential' by some message system != 'dont tell anyone or else'
Confidential is a wrong way to label that. It's
PII: Personally Identifiable Information. So they must protect it so people don't forward it and expose stuff like addresses and SSN. But it's YOUR piiy do you can share it freely. And what you're paid isn't PII. Only other identifying information that probably goes along with it.
It's not illegal to try to prevent you from discussing wages. It is illegal to punish or retaliate against you for doing so. HR doesn't care.
I have to mark emails I'm sending to others about pay as confidential to protect the company and myself. What you do with it after that point is up to you.
No US employer may legally forbid their workers from discussing their wages or working conditions with one another for the purpose of labor organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act_of_1935
Was there other information in there like your name, address, SIN, etc?
As others have said, not a big deal.
HR would probably not understand your concern, and most likely no action will ever be taken from it.
At least you got a raise tho! Congrats on that
You probably have limited practical ways to do something about it (aside from freely talking to your coworkers, reporting to the NLRB if you're in the US, and hoping they care), and anything you do does risk retaliation (illegal, but you need to understand that being right doesn't mean people follow the law, or that the law will be enforced effectively).
Obviously you should be looking for a less shitty job regardless.
(The extra context is important - without it it would be no big deal. In Germany, sending your comp info by email would be illegal because privacy, and the envelope would definitely be labeled confidential).
I would say that you probably shouldn't talk about what was in that email, but if you just happen to be talking to someone about what each of you makes, let them try to stop you.