After new pay transparency laws in California and New York City faced rocky starts, employer compliance is up not just in two of the biggest labor markets in the U.S., but across the country.
About three quarters of job listings in New York City and two thirds in California now include pay information, according to data compiled by Roger Lee, co-founder of Comprehensive.io, a pay data and analytics site. Nationally, salary ranges appear on 44% of posts on Indeed, up from 18% three years ago, data released Tuesday by the job search site shows.
While Colorado enacted the first pay disclosure law in 2021, the trend reached a tipping point after California and New York City’s laws went into effect in recent months. Around a dozen states, including New Jersey, Illinois and Kentucky, are weighing similar regulations. Some of the areas with the biggest increase in ads including pay were in those places, including Honolulu, Hawaii and parts of Connecticut and Massachusetts, according to Indeed’s analysis. Big U.S. employers including Microsoft Corp., Citigroup Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have said they’ll publicly post salary information on job ads — even where not required.
