There was a ton of push-back online when that law went into effect despite CA having a similar law already on the books and obviously other dominoes (like NYC) getting ready to fall.
It was fantastic in my last job search. Even recruiters that tried to "not talk numbers" until the end of the process I could just point to the relevant laws or just not continue on in the process. Plenty of companies were playing by the rules so no need to waste my time.
The CA law on the books was that they had to answer a question about salary bands during an interview, but not in the job posting itself. CA only recently passed a law requiring salary in the job posting itself which I think goes live on Jan 1.
I don't understand why they do this, but I guess it must work from time to time. Seems like a lot of effort to do the whole interview process and then try to get them to accept your lowball offer.
Can you please expand on this a bit more? I live in Colorado and saw virtually no change when looking for a new job inside and outside of the state last year. I did run across a few "no job applications from CO" as was mentioned in other comment threads, but most job postings I saw did not post salary information.
