California Employers Could Soon Have To Include Salary Ranges In Job Ads, A ‘Game Changer’ For Pay Transparency
/California’s state senate voted to pass what’s been called the nation’s most aggressive pay transparency measure Tuesday, moving forward a bill that would require many businesses to post salary ranges in job ads, as well as publicly report more data about how groups of employees are paid.
If a similar version of the bill passes the state’s assembly and is signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), California could become the third state and the seventh jurisdiction in the nation to require employers with at least 15 employees to publish pay ranges in job postings, giving applicants access to information before they lowball answers about salary expectations or waste time applying for underpaying jobs.
Yet while California is playing catch-up to states like Colorado and Washington, which already have similar laws on the books, the bill is also likely to make an outsized impact if it passes, even acting as a tipping point for employers to take such policies nationwide.