I recently started a new contract position and right off the back everything is going well. And we are pretty connected with one another and help each other whenever we are lost. We are both on contract positions, different contract agencies with different titles. Yesterday we were having coffee and he told me that he gets paid $27 per hour and that he believes his contractor gets paid $50. I replied saying well you know if we are converted full time we can make more. He then asked who was my contracting agency and I told him. There’s no harm in telling a co worker who your contracting agency is right? But that’s all I told him. I know he wanted to ask how much I make but I view that as personal. If I come across a co worker asking me how much I make what’s the right way to change the subject or tell them I just don’t give out that information. Because I make more than him. And telling him I know will sour the working relationship we have built together. And who knows he’ll tell everybody on the job how much I get paid and that’s not fair and that we all do the same stuff. I’ll never in my life tell any co worker how much I make because I made that mistake working at a grocery store as a stocker. I was getting paid more and I told my co worker how much I made and he was very surprised. He ended up telling I believe HR which knocked my pay down to the minimum. I have learned a silence is the best!