Salary Transparency Laws

Covered employers

Employers with 15 or more employees

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

• Include pay range in any job posting and provide to an applicant upon reasonable request.
• Provide pay range for employee’s current position upon request.

Covered employers

Employers with at least one employee in Colorado

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

• Include pay range in any job posting, along with a general description of benefits and other compensation.
• List the date a job application window is expected to close.
• Inform all employees of internal job opportunities on the same day and prior to making a selection decision.
• Share information about selected candidates and how employees may express interest in similar roles within 30 days of the new hire’s start date.
• Share details about regular career progression paths, and associated pay and benefits for each step, with eligible employees.

Covered employers

All employers in Connecticut with at least one employee

Pay range required in job postings?

No

Requirements

Employers must disclose pay range to an applicant upon request or before making an offer of compensation, whichever is earlier.

Covered employers

All employers with at least one employee in the District of Columbia, except for the DC and federal governments

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

• Include minimum and maximum projected salary or hourly pay in all postings advertising a job, promotion or transfer opportunity.
• Disclose the existence of healthcare benefits to prospective employees before the first interview.
• Post a notice in the workplace informing employees of their rights under the pay transparency law.

Covered employers

Employers with 50 or more employees

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

• Include an hourly rate or salary range that reasonably reflects expected compensation in job listings.
• Note: Internal job postings for promotions or transfers are excluded and need not include a pay range.

Covered employers

• Job posting requirements: Employers with 15 or more employees
• Other requirements: All employers

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

• Include a pay scale and benefits description in any posting for a specific position (employers with 15+ employees only).
• Announce, post or otherwise notify current employees of promotion opportunities within 14 days of making an external job posting for the position.
• Inform applicants of the pay scale and benefits for a position upon request and prior to discussing compensation, if a public or internal posting with the information has not been made available.

Covered employers

All employers in Maryland

Pay range required in job postings?

No

Effective October 1, 2024: Yes

Requirements

• Provide job applicants with the pay range for the position for which the individual applied.
• Effective October 1, 2024: Include a wage range and general description of benefits and other compensation in any posting for a job that will be physically performed at least partly in Maryland.

Covered employers

Employers with 25 or more employees in Massachusetts

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

• Include a pay range in any advertisement or job posting intended to recruit applicants for a specific role.
• Share a pay range with an employee upon request for their current role, and with applicants upon request for a role to which they are applying.
• Share a pay range with an employee offered a promotion or transfer to a new position with different job responsibilities.

Covered employers

Employers with 30 or more employees in Minnesota

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

Include a starting salary range and description of benefits and other compensation in any job posting.

Covered employers

All employers in Nevada

Pay range required in job postings?

No

Requirements

Provide job applicants who have completed an interview (including for a promotion or transfer) with pay range for the position.

Covered employers

Any employer with 10 or more employees that does business, employs workers or takes job applications within New Jersey

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

Include an hourly wage or salary (or a range) and a general description of benefits and other compensation in any internal or external posting for a job or transfer opportunity.

Covered employers

Employers with at least five employees within Jersey City

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

Include pay range in any ad for a job, promotion or transfer opportunity.

Covered employers

Employers with four or more employees

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

Include pay range and job description in any ad for a job, promotion or transfer opportunity performed at least partly in New York or reporting to a New York-based office, supervisor or other work site

Covered employers

Employers with four or more employees

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

Include pay range in any ad for a job, promotion or transfer opportunity.

Covered employers

Employers with four or more employees whose standard work locations are in the city of Ithaca

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

Include pay range in any ad for a job, promotion or transfer opportunity.

Covered employers

Employers with four or more employees.

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

Include pay range in any ad for a job, promotion or transfer opportunity that can or will be performed at least partly in New York City.

Covered employers

Employers with four or more employees.

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

Include pay range in any ad for a job, promotion or transfer opportunity required to be performed at least partly in Westchester County.

Covered employers

Employers with 15 or more employees

Pay range required in job postings?

No

Requirements

Provide pay range to applicants who have received a conditional job offer upon reasonable request.

Covered employers

Employers with 15 or more employees

Pay range required in job postings?

No

Requirements

Provide pay range to applicants who have received a conditional job offer upon reasonable request.

Covered employers

All employers in Rhode Island

Pay range required in job postings?

No

Requirements

• Provide applicant with pay range for the position to which they have applied, upon request and before discussing compensation
• Provide employees with a pay range for the employee’s position at time of hire, upon request and when the employee moves into a new position

Covered employers

Employers with five or more employees

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

Include a pay range in any written advertisement for a position that is physically located in Vermont, or a remote role that will predominately perform work for a Vermont-based office or work location.

Covered employers

Employers with 15 or more employers

Pay range required in job postings?

Yes

Requirements

• Include pay range and general description of benefits and other compensation in any job posting.
• Provide pay range upon request to an employee offered an internal transfer or promotion.