I feel I must ask where you live / what competitive salaries look like to you, because as far as I know, a software developer salary of $190,000 USD+ in Barcelona, Spain is eye-poppingly high
I mean, fair point, my comment was US-centric. But developers in the US should advocate for much more than that!
Let me say that again, this country is in 35th place out of 193 by GDP per capita and this is how much people make here.
California's GDP will exceed Germany's soon. With less than half of the population. That'll make it the 4th largest economy in the world.
Anyways, median income in the US is near $50k/yr (around $1k/week: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf)
Need to remove your US bias. However - the whole point of transparent is that everyone knows.
If the salary is low for you, you will never apply. But you know exactly what you’ll be paid, and know it’s the same as everyone else doing the same role/level.
That is the benefit to being transparent - it doesn’t have to be the highest paid, it’s simply fair. equal and transparent.
I would say it is eyepopping for US techies who haven't made it into the "big leagues", but there are probably a million software devs in the US making that.