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Guaranteed employers will post ridiculous, not-at-all-helpful salary ranges to get around the law.
That's what they did in Colorado, but it backfired because every applicant expected the high end of the range. Now they just advertise jobs that aren't available in Colorado.
Pay transparency helps both employers and employees, but at the expense of employers who are trying to underpay their workers.
Well good. Those companies deserve to fail if their business model can't support itself without abusing people.
I agree. But many companies are operating under the presumption that this will hurt them, even though they pay a fair wage. If your pay is competitive, you want transparency. If it isn't, you're running an unsustainable business.
Yeah we really need more states - or better yet the federal government - to pass these laws. For now, you're just going to see job postings say "no applicants from New York or Colorado."
At least you can quickly identify the employers with the shitty hiring practices. There are a lot of jobs out there.
And Washington and California.
So they just excluded 50mil americans or so, many of them in high demand fields.
Im not sure that's going to work out for them.
I interviewed at a place a few weeks ago. I asked the recruiter what the salary band was. I told her I expected to be in the top 10-15% of that range.
"Well we don't really like to hire someone at that high of a rate."
Thanks for waving the red flag. Good luck to you. Talk to you never.
Then people will avoid applying, and instead apply to the similair job without a bullshit range. The problem is self correcting.
This law is already in effect in Colorado/Washington/etc. Pull up an advert for seattle jobs on indeed and you'll see that they list a large band, but then a "likely salary" point. Its clear, easy and sets expectations well.
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They have been doing that, but it's in the law (at least in CO) that that's still a violation, so we can report companies that say shit like $30k-$500k. If they can't demonstrate that someone in that position could feasibly make the high end, that range is still illegal.
Which is fine since it tells you so much already. If they say nothing at least it is possible it is an oversight. Someone forgot to click the right box. If they post a crazy range you know that they actively went out of their way to lie to you.
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Earn up to $17 an hour. Saw that on a sign outside Qdoba. Note this was one of the first places that started hitting me up for tips on their credit card machines.
Asked a worker, "Your shift supervisors really make $17 an hour? Or is that supposed to be with tips."
He laughed and said, "No one here is getting paid that much."
$17 for managers with an MBA, PhD in Economics, and 47 years experience.
must be available 24/7 & own a car i reckon
Sorry sir, but you're overqualified.
Just like ads for retail stores: "Up to 70% off OR MORE"
Which really means fuckall.
Everything any price store
Dang minimum wage in my city is $18/h
We're still chilling at $7.25
My company would rather uproot it’s corporate office from New York to New Jersey to avoid any kind of salary disclosure.
That's going to be pretty funny when pretty liberal Jersey passes the same law.
Yall better get used to the south if they want to keep dodgeing this.
Crazy that this isn't the law nationwide.
Agreed but I think in time the rest will follow, certainly for remote jobs.
Three things I've seen:
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Employees getting "title changes" with no formal promotions.
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Finding candidates through employee referrals or word-of-mouth, therefore no formal job posting.
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"Expression of Interest" job postings, where no role is technically open or being sought to fill, but candidates can still submit resumes.
Last company I was at would bring people in on referrals, then offer them a different job and never pay out the referral because they didn't accept the job there were initially referred for.
Magically the well dried up in a couple months and they were looking at 80% turnover in a matter of weeks. Never seen so many people quit en masse.
Did they have any kind of self-awareness as to why they had the resulting turnover? So many times I've been in companies where they do boneheaded moves, have the inevitable consequence, and then blame it on something else.
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I'm in the job market right now and I don't even look at ads that don't include salary range. Sometimes if I'm annoyed enough I'll go full Karen and email the recruiter or whoever posted the add to tell them exactly that. (And completely ignore them if they come back with a number, too late bub.)
Employers with at least four workers will be required to disclose salary ranges
I wonder why four, not three, or five? I wonder how they actually decide this number when they make these kind of laws?
Usually it's 50, I suspect 4 is because more than 4 means 5 or more, and 5 is a commonly liked number
My country's goods and services tax was allegedly set by one of the cabinet members reading the percentage off their wine bottle
I'm disappointed they weren't drinking beer, glad they weren't drinking spirits, and moderately happy it was a female cabinet member, drinking a sweet white
We ended up with 10%
#moreWomenInPolitics
Great news and congrats, New Yorkers! But really, this should just be a normal thing without a law requirement. It is in my home country and it's one of the things I'm really missing after moving abroad. It helped me dodge the bullet, twice, when I got an offer but saw the market ranges, including ones from those companies that I applied to, be 2x+ more than what I was offered. Could've got those companies banned from job posting sites but didn't bother.
Pay transparency, supporters say, will prevent employers from offering some job candidates less or more money based on age, gender, race or other factors not related to their skills.
I think bigger problem is pay lottery itself. And empolyer don't want old(as in longer employed in same company) employees to know they are paid less than newly-hired.
This is why everyone needs to talk about their salary. Shatter that idiotic notion about pay rate discussions being bad, because it only benefits the assholes at the top sucking every penny they can.
In most of post-Soviet countries labour laws explicitly says workers can say their salary, working conditions and other stuff and cannot be punished for this.
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They should be required to list lowest possible pay rate.
They have to provide a range. Knowing the highest is also very helpful when you're negotiating a starting salary.
Help wanted: widget twister. Pay range $4/hr - $12,000,000/hr
This is literally what my job is doing now... "Machinists: $16-$30/hr"
... so you're saying it's $16/hr.
That's when you just see through their bullshit and don't apply.
When you have other companies that aren't bullshitting, and they're also paying a higher minimum wage, the other companies pulling that shit don't stand a chance.
This is going to be interesting as hell...I used to work for a fortune 50 and on my way out I accidentally saw the pay rates for all the people in my department.
I should have kept that document, but was afraid of legal...and that place had Satan on their pay roll.
The really interesting data points were 2 women, who weren't particularly good at their jobs, were off the pay scale by over 100%. Like wildly over paid compared to the rest of the department. #3 was a guy who I thought was our best dev...came in at half their rate.
It would be total bedlam if they had to make that public.
Sounds like BoA
I'm sure it would be in the short term, but in the long term, I bet it would land on being a better place to work.
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I think this works for some job positions, and probably most.
I’m looking for an engineer right now. I’ll take a young one to train up, but I’ll also take an experienced engineer that I don’t have to do anything.
That pay range is pretty broad.
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