Help-wanted advertisements in New York will have to disclose proposed pay rates after a statewide salary transparency law goes into effect on Sunday, part of growing state and city efforts to give women and people of color a tool to advocate for equal pay for equal work.

Employers with at least four workers will be required to disclose salary ranges for any job advertised externally to the public or internally to workers interested in a promotion or transfer.

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.

Advocates believe the change also could help underpaid workers realize they make less than people doing the same job.

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    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.

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      Well good. Those companies deserve to fail if their business model can’t support itself without abusing people.

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        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.

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      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.”

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        At least you can quickly identify the employers with the shitty hiring practices. There are a lot of jobs out there.

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        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.

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        And now you know who not to work for. No one fucking around with your salary before the first interview is going to be a better person come later.