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Pay Transparency

Public disclosure of salary ranges.

Definition

Pay transparency is the practice — and increasingly the legal requirement in jurisdictions like California, Colorado, New York, and Washington — of publishing salary ranges on job postings.

How SalaryScopePro uses this term

We surface pay transparency across salary results, occupation pages, city pages, and Premium Reports — with consistent definitions and methodology. See methodology and data sources for how the underlying numbers are computed.