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$100k - $5 Million is a valid range

Pay bands are the minimum and maximum that employees at a specific level are paid. So this only works if a company is legitimately going to hire people for $5MM a year and/or have existing employees at that level paid that amount.

Also, such large pay bands will raise eyebrows, as they are indicative of discrimination. Why such wildly different wages for the same role?

Because humans aren’t interchangeable cogs?

Let’s consider the range of compensation for the “CEO” role.

These laws are not intended to help CEOs or people in tech already making 6-figure salaries before other compensation.

These ludicrous edge cases are not a "gotcha" for a type of law that greatly helps pay transparency for the vast majority of the population.

Even in tech this is helpful. What's the going rate for a new-grad SWE in Nashville TN? I certainly didn't know when I graduated. I had to get all the way to the offer stage before any numbers were discussed at all. Also no equity was involved anyway.

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