[ElViajero]

That is a very good point. If employers have the information, and they could already share it to lower salaries. Why are they not doing it?

Or something is missing, or the employers are going to realize their mistake and implement transparency.

[sokoloff]

I’m in favor of a light version of salary transparency. (“Here’s the anonymized spread of compensation and you can find where you land in the spread.”)

I’m not in favor of publishing the individual salary information of people who joined my company without that publication being part of the bargain. (I view it as a serious privacy violation whether I publish “here’s what XYZ makes” or whether I publish enough data that lets a data scientist figure out which point in the dataset is XYZ with greater than 80% certainty.)

[callmeal]

>I’m in favor of a light version of salary transparency.

In countries with salary transparency, (the ones I've worked in anyway), there is usually a published grid of roles, and salary ranges. Similar to how the government does things[0]. Companies then make use of "benefits" to reward better performing employees, since those benefits are not part of salary.

[0]: https://www.federaljobs.net/salarybase.htm#SALARY_TABLE_2015...