It would be great if they could publish their salary bands. If you are advertising jobs to Washington State residents, by law, need to publish salary bands. This seems to be not compliant with our law.
It's becoming more common to see footnotes in adverts like that in general.
As an example, Discogs.com [0] explictly states the states where you can remote from. "This is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR, WA, CA, CO, ID, AZ, TX, IL"
In this case, the employer incurs cost in every state they create a nexus, and so yes, there is a limitation. My company uses a PEO that is able to employ people in every state, so we don't have this limitation, but the cost to carry an employee varies a lot from state to state... and that is before considering difference in local pay rates.
And companies that do that will soon realize that cutting off the three states with the highest concentration of qualified tech workers isn't a winning strategy.
Keep in mind that the companies listed on that website are hiring globally.
By not disclosing a salary range these companies would only cut off three states of ONE country.
Also, I'm pretty sure that if most of these companies disclosed the salary range it wouldn't be interesting for people living in the states in question.
What seems like an entry level salary for people in California, Washington, New York or Colorado is actually a great salary in pretty much 90% of the world. It shouldn't be a surprise that there are companies which decide to draw from the talent pool of this other 90% of the world.
Of course, it would still be nice if all companies started disclosing the salary range. I'd just be a bit more careful with strong statements like "this isn't a winning strategy" when talking about 4 states of one country in the context of the entire world.
I have hired a lot of people and for key hires above a certain level, existing tech hubs (SV, Seattle, NYC, Denver) account for a vast majority of the available candidate pool. There are a few other hubs beyond these (London, Singapore, Bangalore) but you are constraining yourself massively.
I would say for roles in senior management (Directors, VPs) and senior engineering (Tech lead, Chief Architect).
> I would think there are plenty of experienced people all over the world.
Unfortunately, no. Until 2020, remote work was rare so to grow into a senior role, ambitious and talented people had to move to various hubs. That created a feedback loop with all the senior talent flocking to major tech hubs. Now you will find only a tiny proportion of senior talent in non-hub locations.
So if you cut off major US tech hubs (SV, NYC, Seattle, Denver) from your hiring pipeline, you are cutting off a majority of your prospective senior hires.
Actually, it's fine. There's plenty of qualified tech workers everywhere else, and each of the three states listed creates huge burdens, either financially or bureaucratically for out of state employers.
In theory the website is advertising jobs to people in every labor market on earth. Since there is a huge variety of labor laws out there, I'm guessing the website violates many many laws.
Commerce on The Internet is being slowly ruined by minor fiefdoms who have strong opinions about how everyone else should behave. Like NY trying to tax out of state remote workers. What a nightmare.
I live in another state with a similar law and it has negatively impacted my job and earning prospects in remote work.
wheres the line between a job board and an aggregator?
As far as I can tell this just links through to the actual job postings, which may or may not be compliant.
It will be an interesting transition period. I remember job ads telling Colorado residents they need not apply, but if you emailed them I bet it would have been fine.
> (3) If no wage scale or salary range exists, the employer must provide the minimum wage or salary expectation set by the employer prior to posting the position, making a position transfer, or making the promotion.
Since aggregators aren't "job postings", I am guessing at least for WA, the website is compliant, but if you click through to the job postings, then the salary range is not published there either [0]. Should an aggregator be allowed to publish illegal job postings?
Should residents of states where the linked job posting is non-conformant assume that the job posting is not targeted at them, otherwise the job poster would have complied?
After all, the job listing said nothing about Washington state.
If nobody in the company is working in Colorado, they can probably more easily justify excluding Colorado residents, and thus not have to conform to the salary posting requirements.
