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Re:New law bans California employers from asking applicants ... by secabeen on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:15PM (#15503719)
It's the Lake Wobegon effect. No company wants to say their CEO is below the mean, and pay is a signal of CEO quality, so every company is always trying to pay above the mean, and so the mean inexorably rises and rises.
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