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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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      I can’t fathom that place ever being a good place to work…it’s old money, and they have cash reserves to keep them solvent for a century.

      They have no incentive to change. They’re happy when their high value staff quit and could care less about the churn it causes.