Pay Transparency Laws by State and Municipality

Author: Brightmine Editorial Team

A growing number of states and localities have passed pay transparency laws that require employers to disclose pay ranges for roles they are looking to fill. Most of these laws require a pay range to appear in both public and internal job postings, sometimes alongside other information, such as details about benefit offerings. A few jurisdictions require an employer to share a pay range with a job applicant upon request or at a certain point in the interviewing and hiring process but do not mandate that the information appear in job postings. Some pay transparency laws also give employees the right to learn the pay range for their current position.

The following chart provides an overview of state and municipal pay transparency laws, including key details regarding the employers to which they apply, the positions or job postings they cover, the information an employer must disclose and any associated recordkeeping and notice requirements. Jurisdictions that have not enacted a pay transparency law are marked No in the Pay Transparency Law column and N/A in the remaining columns. Additional information about each law is available by clicking on the name of the jurisdiction in the first column of the chart.

For information on salary history inquiry laws, which restrict an employer's ability to inquire about and use information about an employee's current or previous pay when making hiring and compensation decisions, refer to Salary History Inquiry Laws by State and Municipality.