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For anyone who wants to read the bill, it's SB-1162.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

I took a look to see if there were any requirements for the range of the pay scale to be posted, and it looks like this is all that's said:

> “Pay scale” means the salary or hourly wage range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for the position.

Also, apparently you can already ask for the pay scale, but this law would require it to be on any job posting.

> Existing law requires an employer, upon reasonable request, to provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant applying for employment.

And you would be able to get the pay range for your current job.

> This bill would also require an employer, upon request, to provide to an employee the pay scale for the position in which the employee is currently employed.

> this law would require it to be on any job posting.

And companies will still avoid listing a salary, and just say 'Not accepting applicants in Colorado or California' as they do now[1] to get around the Colorado law.

1. https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/

California is over 10% of the US population, and tends to be above average in the things that businesses are looking for. That's going to be a hard ask.

Not to mention, many jobs sites are probably based there, are they going to look too kindly on job listings that disallow their own state?

Until we hit a critical mass of states with this legislation.

Call your representative if you live in a state that hasn’t passed such legislation yet.

Maybe. California seems like a bit of a big state to exclude candidates from. Although, I guess for remote work, it might be preferable to get people from low CoL states anyway.

The business impact for any decently sized company of denying California + Colorado applicants will be much higher than denying just Colorado applicants.

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