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0 pointsgiantg24y ago0 comments

"Usually these things (at least with the government) don't list experience, or educational attainment."

Seems pretty useless without that. Those are huge factors.

"The question is mainly whether you want to be ignorant, or not."

That's not the only question. The other question mostly being discussed here is if you want anyone to be able to know your salary by working backwards from the published list, specifically in small companies.

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endisneigh4y ago· 2 in thread

> Seems pretty useless without that. Those are huge factors.

The point is to allow for more transparency, not perfect transparency.

> That's not the only question. The other question mostly being discussed here is if you want anyone to be able to know your salary by working backwards from the published list, specifically in small companies.

In practice this doesn't matter, but even if this were an issue you could exempt employers with fewer than 100 employees.

giantg2OP4y ago

"In practice this doesn't matter"

How so? Even at 100 employees you might only have 5 tech leads. So the population of the subgroups matter.

"The point is to allow for more transparency, not perfect transparency."

What can we actually do with that transparency if it doesn't have the attributes necessary for meaningful comparison?

endisneigh4y ago

The point is to create a range in which both current and prospective employees can refer to. Obviously it's not perfect as that would require all information which would be a privacy concern.

Are you arguing knowing nothing is better than knowing something?

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