4 phobias that could sabotage your earning power

When Allen Walton, 26, of Dallas, was hired to help launch an e-commerce site for a security products company in 2011, he happily accepted the C.E.O.'s offer of a $65,000 salary. After all, he'd been making about half that in a previous sales job, so he didn't attempt to negotiate. By 2013 the company was raking in more than $1 million in online sales — yet his salary hadn't budged. When he asked colleagues in the industry how much they were making and did research on his own, he was shocked t...