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Netflix has job with almost $1M listed salary range, to comply with new CA law

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Re: Netflix has job with almost $1M listed salary range, to comply with new CA law

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Good for the engineer who is an expert in those audio and video testing and can get hired for the role. We should be thankful engineering has provided many folk who were previously poor, an opportunity to rise to the middle class simply by studying and being smart.

There is likely no engineer at that level, instead they're gaming the law. They're required to report their salary range for transparency, and they're basically replying with "our salaries are between between 0 and $1M".

Re: Netflix has job with almost $1M listed salary range, to comply with new CA law

#12

Is there really nothing in the law preventing companies from doing things like this? Could they say something even more absurd like $1-$1,000,000?

In the law? No; but, this is the sort of thing that people who care about equality in pay should look at and refuse to work at. If there can be an 800k difference between two different employees with the same title that sit next to each other, that's not a place I would want to work for and wouldn't even apply.

Re: Netflix has job with almost $1M listed salary range, to comply with new CA law

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Colorado has a similar law, but I've never observed this kind of "range-hacking." Why would this happen in CA but not CO?

Are we seeing this sort of insult in all CA companies? Or just Netflix so far? It could just be Netflix being harmful to its present and future employees.

Re: Netflix has job with almost $1M listed salary range, to comply with new CA law

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> This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary),

Even if not the case here, isn't that to be expected then? Volatility in share price will put a big range in that figure for companies with less of the total comp in cash base salary.

Re: Netflix has job with almost $1M listed salary range, to comply with new CA law

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Good for the engineer who is an expert in those audio and video testing and can get hired for the role. We should be thankful engineering has provided many folk who were previously poor, an opportunity to rise to the middle class simply by studying and being smart.

There is likely no engineer at that level, instead they're gaming the law. They're required to report their salary range for transparency, and they're basically replying with "our salaries are between between 0 and $1M".

I know a couple of Netflix employees making over 700k cash. I also have a friend who was a recruiter at Netflix that handled an offer to an engineer for $1M cash. These are real numbers.

Re: Netflix has job with almost $1M listed salary range, to comply with new CA law

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Good for the engineer who is an expert in those audio and video testing and can get hired for the role. We should be thankful engineering has provided many folk who were previously poor, an opportunity to rise to the middle class simply by studying and being smart.

You're right but I think you're missing the point. Offering a range that broad in the job listing is just an effort to flaunt a law. That law was put into place to help the people you're talking about.

It’s not flaunting a law. It’s a typical built in Sacramento law written by dilettantes who can’t think through the simplest of problems.

Just like the “can’t charge extra for using a credit card” law. Prices went up and gas stations give a cash discount.

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