Poll: Should WhoIsHiring recommend disclosure of salary range?

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HN's monthly WhoIsHiring post does not mention disclosure of salary range; users must upvote these manually.

The post currently excludes "recruiting firms or job boards", and limits to "One post per company", so there is precedent for additional guidelines.

Should HN's monthly WhoIsHiring post recommend disclosure of salary range?

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Here's a question from the other side of this conversation. What about companies who don't have established salary ranges?

I imagine that a company has a range and they just don't feel comfortable posting it. Maybe they are afraid that their range is too low or too high and are using the applicants salary range as a baseline.

It's pretty easy to prove they do have a salary range though. Imagine the most qualified candidate you can possible imagine. Would you pay them 150 billion dollars a year? If the answer is no, we can be reasonably assured the upper limit to the salary range is below 150 billion dollars.

You run into this type of argument all of the time in philosophy when it comes time to draw a line. Just keep constructing thought experiments until you end up with a range that is somewhat meaningful

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