Even better than salary disclosure is collective bargaining. Then its doesn't matter if they disclose anything, you'll get the industry agreed salary matching your seniority - and then you can negotiate from there.

No! Think of the children!

How will they be motivated to finish school if they can see what the starting salaries really are ?!?!?

In America companies love to play games, maybe it’ll work in Britain though.

I firmly believe the salary should be fixed, non negotiable and public information.

Cash > equity. But in America workers have no real rights, even with proof your boss lied to you to deny your right to equal pay not many options exist.

Wage theft is the number one form of theft in the US.

as with anything, use it as a signal upon which to filter or rank opportunities. its wise to invest our time on those who demonstrate they value us the most. simply reciprocate back. why? life short, time precious.

meaningless legislation if it means, employer can just publish range somewhere between legal minimum wage and let's say double of what they will pay you, so you will gain absolutely zero knowledge what is the actual range

if the law wasn't toothless they should make it mandatory to publish median salary for this position in specific advertising company, then you would know median of your future colleagues (and so would they)

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There are all kinds of reforms needed in that space; like whether a position is eligible for internal hire or not, requiring that a job posting must lead to someone being hired, making it illegal for jobs to be posted on fake foreign job sites in order to claim no native job demand exists as justification to import foreign labor, requiring a 100% visa employment tax on the fully burdened rate, making all executive bonuses taxable at 100% for any company that hires Visa/foreign labor, etc.

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Such laws do not really help in practice. Does a 60-90k range in EU, commonly given to engineering roles, offer any real guidance? A better system would be publishing the average salary for a similar role, but that would be a privacy problem for a low headcount team, or if the role doesn't exist yet... This is a really hard problem.