It would be great if they could publish their salary bands. If you are advertising jobs to Washington State residents, by law, need to publish salary bands. This seems to be not compliant with our law.
As an example, Discogs.com [0] explictly states the states where you can remote from. "This is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR, WA, CA, CO, ID, AZ, TX, IL"
By not disclosing a salary range these companies would only cut off three states of ONE country.
Also, I'm pretty sure that if most of these companies disclosed the salary range it wouldn't be interesting for people living in the states in question.
What seems like an entry level salary for people in California, Washington, New York or Colorado is actually a great salary in pretty much 90% of the world. It shouldn't be a surprise that there are companies which decide to draw from the talent pool of this other 90% of the world.
Of course, it would still be nice if all companies started disclosing the salary range. I'd just be a bit more careful with strong statements like "this isn't a winning strategy" when talking about 4 states of one country in the context of the entire world.
I have hired a lot of people and for key hires above a certain level, existing tech hubs (SV, Seattle, NYC, Denver) account for a vast majority of the available candidate pool. There are a few other hubs beyond these (London, Singapore, Bangalore) but you are constraining yourself massively.
New grads / junior ICs is another story.
> I would think there are plenty of experienced people all over the world.
Unfortunately, no. Until 2020, remote work was rare so to grow into a senior role, ambitious and talented people had to move to various hubs. That created a feedback loop with all the senior talent flocking to major tech hubs. Now you will find only a tiny proportion of senior talent in non-hub locations.
So if you cut off major US tech hubs (SV, NYC, Seattle, Denver) from your hiring pipeline, you are cutting off a majority of your prospective senior hires.
I live in another state with a similar law and it has negatively impacted my job and earning prospects in remote work.
As far as I can tell this just links through to the actual job postings, which may or may not be compliant.
It will be an interesting transition period. I remember job ads telling Colorado residents they need not apply, but if you emailed them I bet it would have been fine.
Dunno about that. I am currently employed in a remote role at a huge company. I can move anywhere I want in the USA, except Colorado.
https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=49.58.110
Since aggregators aren't "job postings", I am guessing at least for WA, the website is compliant, but if you click through to the job postings, then the salary range is not published there either [0]. Should an aggregator be allowed to publish illegal job postings?
[0] - https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/10up/jobs/senior-we...
Should residents of states where the linked job posting is non-conformant assume that the job posting is not targeted at them, otherwise the job poster would have complied?
After all, the job listing said nothing about Washington state.