NEW YORK (AP) — Help wanted. The job: putting one of the nation’s most far-reaching salary disclosure laws into practice. Location: New York City. Just four months ago, city lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to require many ads for jobs in the nation’s most populous city to include salary ranges, in the name of giving job applicants — particularly women and people of color — a better shot at fair pay.
Highlights
- In NYC, ads for jobs will have to say what they pay in job postings.
- Lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to require many ads for.
- jobs in the nation’s most populous city to include salary ranges.
- The median pay for full-time female workers was about 83% what men made in 2021, federal data shows.
- At least seven states from California to Connecticut and at least two cities beyond New York — Cincinnati and Toledo, Ohio — have started demanding employers disclose salary information to job-seekers in some circumstances.
- New York City’s new law is similar but applies only to employers with four or more workers.