New York will be the fourth U.S. state to require salary ranges with job postings when a new law signed Wednesday by Governor Kathy Hochul takes effect in September. This fall, one in every five people in the U.S. will live in a state with so-called pay transparency laws.
The law applies to all employers across New York with four or more workers, even for jobs only performed partly within the state. By September, job ads must include an annual or hourly salary amount or minimum and maximum range. A similar New York City law went into effect in November.
New York’s salary law is part of a wave of requirements sweeping the U.S. as pressure grows to close a persistent wage gap between White men, women and people of color. As more states implement the rules, companies like Microsoft Corp. Citigroup Inc. and Google are starting to list salary ranges nationally even when they aren’t required to do so by law. And employment experts say workers are increasingly asking for the information.
