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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by majormajor on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:26PM (#15502667)
Posting a range "job pays X to Y" runs the risk of every candidate assuming they'd be on the "Y" side, not the lower "X" side. If a candidate wows you, you want to impress them, so you have to have room to go above your posted range, in that case. But then you're being less transparent, once again.
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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by pmoriarty on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:48PM (#15502892)
"Posting a range "job pays X to Y" runs the risk of every candidate assuming they'd be on the "Y" side"

Employers know this, so they just adjust their advertised range downwards so that the "Y" in "X to Y" is actually at the low end of the range they're actually willing to pay.

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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by majormajor on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:59PM (#15503019)
Yes, I mentioned that, but how does that help the candidate filtering lack-of-transparency problem? I as candidate no longer know their real range, so I have little useful information. I as employer can't win sharing the true range or the false range.
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