Jobs that show salary ranges: Pay transparency and work culture
Companies across the country have begun listing salary ranges in their job descriptions after a New York City law took effect Tuesday requiring any employer
Companies across the country have begun listing salary ranges in their job descriptions after a New York City law took effect Tuesday requiring any employer hiring in the city to do so for all employment opportunities.
Experts and workers say the shift aligns with a broader change in worker attitudes and demands around pay transparency in the United States, especially in the wake of more recent pro-worker labor movements that emphasize boundary-setting and self-advocacy.
The NYC mandate is the latest and likely furthest-reaching legislation requiring that employers post salaries on job descriptions, following a Colorado law enacted last year and a California law set to take effect next year. Because the New York City law covers remote jobs that can be performed from anywhere, many large companies have begun listing ranges on all jobs offered throughout the country.
Mary Jantsch, a human resources adviser who helps startups create infrastructures for pay transparency, recently started a newsletter aimed at helping companies understand compensation trends. Having focused on this work for nine years, she said what’s happening now with pay transparency will most likely mirror what has happened with remote work in recent years.
“Now that a lot of people have worked remotely, you hear people saying, ‘Oh my gosh, I would never go back to an office.’ And I think that will be the same with pay transparency,” Jantsch said. “Once people have gone through the experience of having really transparent conversations and really understanding how their compensation was put together, it would be hard to go back to a company where that doesn’t happen.”
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