Game companies post absurdly broad salary ranges to 'comply' with new pay transparency laws

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Netflix takes the cake with a job that pays between $50,000 and, uh, $600,000.

Inside a game industry job applicant today there are two wolves: One is tearing shit up in reckless glee because they just got a job offer from Netflix as a videogame graphics programmer earning $600,000 a year. The other is howling in despair for getting the same job offer, but at a salary of only $50,000, which is barely enough to live in your car in Los Angeles.

New laws in California, New York City, and Washington state require employers to include expected salaries in job postings, though the wording for each law differs and all three are unfortunately vague. California's requires listing"the salary or hourly wage range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for the position," while New York requires a"good faith salary range.

The intention of these sorts of transparency laws is to ensure that employees are paid equally for equal work despite differences in race, gender, or background (pay inequality remains an ongoing issue,

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Oh my god, I want to go to Netflix to work there netflix, please take me

Me dá uma 4070ti nunca te pedi nada!

lmao give it a couple months and they'll be whining that interviewees are saying 'oh sorry I was expecting to get an offer closer to the higher end of the range.' Like damn fellow execs we so cleverly used the letter of the law to beat the spirit of the law, why didn't it work?

Is these for 'DEGENERATE' employees only?

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