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What is the downside of posting a salary range of $1 to $1m for every job? Is there some kind of enforcement that it has to be someone at the company making the amount of money for the job with the same title?



The law states:

> employers advertising jobs in New York City must include a good faith salary range for every job, promotion, and transfer opportunity advertised

I think the question is what is "good faith" and what is the legal test (if there is one) for such a description. I'd love it if a lawyer could pontificate on this.


I think the difference is how loudly they're saying, "!@#$ you, we are in control and will manipulate this process to our advantage."

If the goal is, in good faith, to find someone to do a job, then publishing all known constraints will drastically improve the search. But when they don't do that, it's usually because they want to hold their cards close so that they can both 1) hire someone to fill a _need_ the company has, and 2) pay them as little as possible.

As other comments have discussed, it's kind of a self-own that just makes the process slower and worse and leaves everyone less happy at the end.


I guess for me personally, I have almost always been paid above the salary range for the jobs that I have had so it feels limiting to me.


They just immediately receive the delete button.

Maybe 5 years ago or so, I got an email that sounded good in terms of domain and tech stack, and with good detail on tasks and responsibilities.

As I reached the bottom, I saw a salary heading and assumed it would have a good range. It said something like $80k - $2 million.

Immediately deleted and a filter placed in my email to never hear from them again.




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