Ask HN: Should HN require/encourage job postings to have a salary range?
If these were extremely specific <i>job postings</i> (e.g. &quot;We&#x27;re hiring a Senior Software Engineer II with 2-3 years of experience&quot;) then it would make more sense.<p>But most of the &quot;Who is hiring&quot; posts aren&#x27;t job postings. They&#x27;re literally answering the question &quot;Who is hiring&quot; and inviting a wide range of people to apply.<p>Requiring salary ranges would significantly elevate the amount of work that goes into answering the &quot;Who is hiring&quot; question and therefore would reduce the number of postings significantly.<p>The smallest companies and startups would be the most negatively impacted. Big companies could probably kick it over to HR and legal and have them spend a week drafting up a post that complies with all of the various requirements in different states, but the average poster in that thread isn&#x27;t going to want to touch a salary requirement posting for something that isn&#x27;t a specific job ad.