Effective January 1, 2023, Washington employers with at least 15 employees must affirmatively disclose the wage scale or salary range and a general description of all benefits and other compensation being offered when posting job openings, regardless of whether such information is requested by the applicant.
Washington joins the growing number of states requiring employers to include salary ranges and benefits offerings on job postings.
The new law, signed March 30, 2022, revises a 2019 amendment to the Washington Equal Pay and Opportunities Act (EPOA). The 2019 amendment required employers to disclose wage scale and salary ranges if an applicant for employment requested it. Under the new law, an applicant’s request is no longer required.
Significantly, the new law does not change the 2019 amendment regarding current employees being transferred or promoted. In those cases, employers only must provide the required compensation information when requested by the current employee.
The legislature also removed the portion of the 2019 amendment stating that, if there is no wage scale or salary range, employers are required only to give the minimum wage or salary expectation before posting the position or making the internal transfer or promotion.
The new law does not require employers to create job postings. It imposes the posting obligations on those employers choose to create.
The law defines posting as “any solicitation intended to recruit job applicants...
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