I would answer this, but it would give my potential next employer the opportunity to lowball me.

This would not be the case if the pay transparency that parent describes were already a thing, because I would have the same ability to check the salaries of that company.

But without that mandate happening, whoever moves first loses. That's why salary transparency should be mandated, because otherwise no one has any motivation to move, so no one will.

This is such a stupid retort. I'm totally fine with my salary being public iff everyone's salary is public.

Start from yourself.

Would what someone claims online make any difference to you?

The point is to drive home how they might feel about publicity announcing and verifying their income for the world to see.

Pay transparency does not necessarily mean a specific individual is tied with a specific amount of money.

Yes, but in many cases it does (not-huge companies with enough data on role, experience, location to disambiguate)...