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For our industry, it's effectively already required, right? Because of other jurisdictions that require it?

There were a lot of WFH job postings from the past few years that said "No applicants from Colorado" because of their similar law.

CA and a few other states have recently enacted this same law though so it'll become a lot harder to avoid posting the salary if you want good candidates.

I haven't seen those postings, but I imagine that would make a terrible first impression to potential candidates, effectively signalling that the company is committed to playing games with salaries.

Or one which is committed to not kowtowing to every jurisdiction that comes up with their own custom laws.

Operating based on spite is not good either!

It's not like they're trying to avoid a bad law.

Any company with a job posting that had that line must fall into one of two categories:

1. Employ zero (0) people in the state of Colorado 2. Must have a "real" reason for restricting the geography i.e. the job is not remote.

I mostly used it as a way to get salary info up-front, even through a recruiter.

No, even for a remote position they can simply say "Not open to people living in CO etc."

Reminder that if that's the case the company cannot have any employees in that state. Otherwise they have to have a real reason for limiting the geography i.e. the position isn't remote.

Would you apply to a company that posted a job that said "not open to Colorado residents" just so they could avoid posting a salary range? I sure as shit wouldn't.

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