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I think what would be more effective is to require companies to publicly post salaries for their existing positions, once every 6 months, like:

Support Executive - 30K - 45K

Marketing Manager - 50K

etc. It would reveal someone's salary if there's only one person working at that title in the entire company but I do not see any disadvantages to that.

I think it would enable all employees to negotiate a fair salary, and job seekers to find a fair compensation easier.

In terms of range - why could not the law say "max cannot exceed 130% of min"?




There are many jobs where the range of productivity is higher than 30%. Entertainment and athletics are obvious ones, but whether you think programmers of a given title/scope could be 10x different from each other, it seems like most people would agree that there's at least a 1.5x spread. Same would seem to be true in sales, modeling, acting, music, athletics, writing, film-making, and other fields involving significant creativity or where performance varies greatly.


It's funny, because for big companies they kind of do:

https://h1bdata.info


> It would reveal someone's salary if there's only one person working at that title in the entire company but I do not see any disadvantages to that.

This is already required for H1-B workers through the prevailing wage determination process.


you can go to Department of Labor website and get this information (prevailing wage) for each job code and for each ZIP code




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