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I wish they would look into wage fixing across companies too - where at least "big tech" shares / buys salary data across all their competitors, so they don't have to increase wages - they fix them by being consistent across that dataset.

Seems to be the same thing, just in a different "market"

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The DOJ had safe harbor guidelines for the sharing of price and wage surveys through a third-party intermediary as long as it was sufficiently old and aggregated to prevent determining the prices/wages of a specific competitor.

Those guidelines were rescinded by the Biden administration last year due to concerns that algorithms eroded the distinctions between past/aggregated and current/disaggregated data.

>I wish they would look into wage fixing across companies too - where at least "big tech" shares / buys salary data across all their competitors, so they don't have to increase wages - they fix them by being consistent across that dataset.

If this is "wage fixing" by the employer, what does this say about sites like levels.fyi for employees? Is that also "wage fixing"?

Public data sharing is allowed.

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