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Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Post by duped »

willio58 wrote: post #10
gregjor wrote: post #2

Probably because HN is not a law enforcement agency for New York City. The law has some exceptions, perhaps those apply. Why not contact the company and politely ask for the salary range?

HN is being payed by these companies for these posts. Surely it wouldn’t be too hard for HN devs to have a running list of states that require salary ranges to be posted, and check against that when the customer submits a request. Then it will make it easier as more and more states require the bare-minimum worker right of public salaries.

> HN is being payed by these companies for these posts.

that's not true afaik.

Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

scrapcode wrote: post #6
altdataseller wrote: post #3

Contact the company, and tell them they need to publish their salary range. Or else you'll report them to the NYC Attorney General (or whoever is in charge of this thing). Maybe they're ignorant. Or they're hoping noone calls them out on this. Either way, make sure they know the consequences if they don't publish it

This will certainly move you to the top of the list for hiring consideration. /s

There are polite ways of accomplishing that.

Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Post by manholio »

altdataseller wrote: post #3

Contact the company, and tell them they need to publish their salary range. Or else you'll report them to the NYC Attorney General (or whoever is in charge of this thing). Maybe they're ignorant. Or they're hoping noone calls them out on this. Either way, make sure they know the consequences if they don't publish it

That's not the point. YC lends credibility to these companies by funding them, so allowing them to post illegal job ads on a platform controlled by YC strongly implies that YC has no problem with that practice.

This is the appropriate venue to talk about it and make YC aware of it.

Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Post by SamWhited »

A friend of mine asked about one of these recently and they wouldn't give him a salary range, so he reported them to the attorney general and they immediately put one on their website. Can't hurt to ask (although in that case they may only give it to you, if they do, move on to step 2 anyways), then if they don't update it report them and you'll be doing everyone else a favor too.

Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Post by rtev »

zcombynator wrote: post #13

You should stop making YC responsible for what any single portfolio company is doing. That's straight out hilarious. After the firms are out of batch they are independent and autonomous organizations.

They’re advertising here on their platform, so the tie-in is strong.

Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Post by yamtaddle »

duped wrote: post #11
willio58 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is being payed by these companies for these posts. Surely it wouldn’t be too hard for HN devs to have a running list of states that require salary ranges to be posted, and check against that when the customer submits a request. Then it will make it easier as more and more states require the bare-minimum worker right of public salaries.

> HN is being payed by these companies for these posts. that's not true afaik.

Right, I thought this site's whole purpose was to be a relatively high-value and free (to the company posting the ad) place to display certain ads for the companies YC invests in.

Re: Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

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Post by cyrieu »

josefresco wrote: post #4

I found an example on today's front page (Rutter): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rutter/7b222f5f-cd46-4592-9cf8-6cd1... No salary range posted, job is in NYC.

Hey sorry about that this is our job posting - we duplicated a another one and missed adding that information, thanks for catching that! We added in the salary range. Feel free to email us if you have any other questions!
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