[avolcano]

Do you think that, if you don't publish those salary bands, the employees in those different departments will somehow _not know_ that the other departments get paid more?

Because, trust me, as someone who's worked at multiple B2C companies with large customer service departments, everyone absolutely knows, which is why us in the engineering department were always happy to buy the rounds at cross-company happy hours.

[gkop]

Yea, on the margin, they will be less likely to know the exact magnitude of the difference and (probably more importantly) less likely to be reminded (IE every time leadership asks “Refer your friends!” and they click the engineering job postings, they will be reminded when they see the salary range).