Even if a company asks, you can say no. I’ve never revealed this info and never will. You are giving them a free negotiating card. It doesn’t serve your interests at all.

You can always choose some qualitative attribute or perk about your job, just like businesses use, and put a monetary value on that to you. The value becomes subjective and you can use that as a reference if you decide you do want to disclose or inflate your salary to negotiate higher for a new position. This is more difficult if the person happens to be familiar with a given businesses rates but businesses are often so secretive about comp rates (for their own advantage) that even management within companies may not know how much you're paid.

Sometimes it’s okay. Like when you made a metric ass ton at your last job and you know they can’t match that number.

Now you get to negotiate fridays off, 2 months of vacation, and a golden parachute of $X per year worked. Everyone is mad at CEOs but I once negotiated a $25k golden parachute for when I left, _just to see if it was possible_

Agreed. It doesn't matter at all if asking is banned. Just learn how to talk around the question (not difficult), and always refuse to reveal previous salary.

I like that advice.

It appears to matter in practice. Perhaps some people are struggling to talk around the question.

> A study published in June 2020 from researchers at Boston University’s School of Law found that, following the implementation of salary history bans, workers who changed jobs saw their pay increase by 5 percent more than comparable workers who changed jobs in the absence of a ban, with even larger benefits for women and African Americans.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2021/0...