Salary Transparency Debate

What government agency allows you to see arbitrary other peoples salaries?

you're missing that major markets within the US just started mandating salaries to be disclosedprior information posted on "what salary does make" websites was just wrongthat's pretty much it

H-1B salaries are already public info

You are lucky they did not use equifaxs https://theworknumber.com/ to get your salary info. Or maybe they did and your salary info wasn’t there. Many of my employers have reported my salary to that database without my consent. It is easy to obtain. There was an article on HN about it within the last month.

If the salaries are public, can you post the link?

Are sites likes Glassdoor (for most companies), Linkedin jobs (with salary ranges), and tech (levelsfyi, etc) already doing this in an anonymous way?

> in some states potential employers aren't allowed to ask.You dont need to when you can just look this up. Plenty of services offer this now. You're salary is pretty much public info. [1][1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753

why not require companies to post salary ranges of already employed workers in same or similar roles? seems like it could circumvent the absurd range issue

Hi, I’m one of the creators of Levels.fyi. You’re right that there’s definitely likely a bias in the data we collect. But in terms of validation and verification, I just wanted to provide some info on how we source.Whenever possible, we collect verified offers / pay stubs / W-2s to anchor the data on the site. While our self reported data is definitely the more popular choice for submission, we are able to determine general bands and find blatant outliers for certain companies and r

You are breaking the law by omitting the salaries for US positions.