The law now mandates that companies post salaries, but some are listing broad ranges.

June 26, 2023, 12:03 a.m. ET

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Good morning. It’s Monday. We’ll see how a New York City law that took effect late last year is helping workers entering the job market.

It’s been almost seven months since New York City’s salary transparency law went into effect. It requires employers to disclose in job postings how much a particular job would pay. Our writer H. Claire Brown says the New York law, like similar state statutes elsewhere, can give job hunters a better sense of how much they can expect to earn. I spoke with her about how much of a difference the new laws are making.

How many job postings now contain salary ranges?

In New York, nearly all have to. If an employer has fewer than four employees, salary ranges do not have to be posted.

Nationally, I found that about a quarter of the work force lives in places that require salary postings, but there’s been a ripple effect. Indeed.com is reporting that something like 45 percent of postings across the country have salary ranges, up dramatically from before the pandemic, so the laws have prompted lots of companies to include ranges.

Whether they are helpful is another story entirely.

And what is that? Are salary transparency laws making a difference?

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