A middle ground might be public tax info for the richest 100 people. Most of them are verifying their wealth for Forbes and Bloomberg rich lists anyway.

Sounds horrible. I don't want people outside of my tech circle knowing how much money I make.

I like my privacy. Having people know I make over $x00k a year would invite all sorts of bad things.

That question was asked in a thread on the same topic earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27434929