[epwr]

> Microsoft said it would disclose salary ranges in all internal and external U.S. job postings no later than January 2023. That date is when Washington state, where Microsoft’s headquarters are located, will start requiring employers with at least 15 employees to disclose salary ranges for each position.

In other news, Microsoft to comply with a new law.

[JumpCrisscross]

> In other news, Microsoft to comply with a new law

Microsoft is under no obligation to comply with Washington law outside Washington. That's what they're doing here.

[TulliusCicero]

Since their largest workforce is in Washington state, it's probably just less risky to make this their overall US policy. Making a different policy for HQ vs everywhere else could easily lead to mistakes and accidentally breaking the law.

[epwr]

This article [1] seems to state pretty clearly that the law applies to all job posting by a company in Washington state. Any sources saying it's only about jobs open to Washington residents?

[1] https://www.dwt.com/blogs/employment-labor-and-benefits/2022...

[bena]

It's probably a move just to make it easier on themselves.

They want to streamline the job posting portion of HR. They don't want to have to worry about whether or not they have to post the salary range, so they just do what the most demanding law they deal with requires.

Now they only really have to deal with areas that have laws that contradict with laws in other areas. Then you'd default to the law that benefits you the most and deal with the contradictory areas explicitly. Since you have to do the work anyway.

For example, let's pretend that California had a really stupid law that forbid salary ranges from being posted on job listings. Now Microsoft has to be careful about how and where they post jobs. And since it's beneficial for them to hide the information, they'd likely only post the salary ranges where they were required to.

But absent that, don't do work you don't have to do.

[superfrank]

My guess is they see the writing on the wall with this one. Colorado and Washington both have laws about this now. I wouldn't be surprised to see California and New York implement something similar in the next year or two.

[wing-_-nuts]

Probably easier to just do it for everybody than have two separate listings for WA and the rest of the US. I wonder if this is TC or just salary?

[NaturalPhallacy]

It's simpler and easier to do it this way. Which is what they're doing here.

[chrismeller]

“Software Engineer I - 40-250k”

[ekianjo]

anything preventing them from doing very large ranges like that?

[pulse7]

"Any Job ... 0-1B"