roles 3971, forms read for 3957 roles; postings 4908, forms read 4891 companies 167; based in the US 144 ######## MAIN: roles open in the US at US-based companies: roles 2667, companies 136 prints a range in US dollars 2487 93.3% prints a pay range 2511 94.2%; in a board field 1764, only in the text 747 expectation roles 87 3.3% required 73 83.9% of askers companies 13 with a printed range 76 87.4% by company: rocketlab 19, fireworks 16, clickup 13, replit 10, bandwidth 7, justworks 7, twitch 5, vultr 5, 15five 1, cockroachlabs 1, gopuff 1, rho 1, workato 1 history roles 0 0.0% required 0 n/a of askers companies 0 with a printed range 0 n/a range_check roles 25 0.9% required 25 100.0% of askers companies 4 with a printed range 24 96.0% by company: samsara 16, palantir 7, instacart 1, klaviyo 1 offers roles 20 0.7% required 20 100.0% of askers companies 1 with a printed range 20 100.0% by company: palantir 20 pay_other roles 3 0.1% required 2 66.7% of askers companies 3 with a printed range 3 100.0% (below, "printed range" means prints_usd_range) expectation where a range is printed 76 of 2487 3.1%; where none is printed 11 of 180 6.1% ######## COMPARISON: roles not open in the US, any company: roles 1024, companies 98 prints a range in US dollars 34 3.3% prints a pay range 264 25.8%; in a board field 183, only in the text 81 expectation roles 127 12.4% required 117 92.1% of askers companies 14 with a printed range 8 6.3% by company: airwallex 45, lovable 22, nubank 18, justworks 7, workato 6, smartsheet 5, adyen 4, fireworks 4, mollie 4, clickup 3, rocketlab 3, sumologic 3, vultr 2, cockroachlabs 1 history roles 2 0.2% required 2 100.0% of askers companies 1 with a printed range 0 0.0% by company: smartsheet 2 range_check roles 4 0.4% required 4 100.0% of askers companies 1 with a printed range 1 25.0% by company: samsara 4 offers roles 8 0.8% required 8 100.0% of askers companies 2 with a printed range 0 0.0% by company: palantir 6, stripe 2 pay_other roles 1 0.1% required 1 100.0% of askers companies 1 with a printed range 0 0.0% (below, "printed range" means prints_range) expectation where a range is printed 8 of 264 3.0%; where none is printed 119 of 760 15.7% ######## COMPARISON, US-based companies only: their roles not open in the US: roles 768, companies 80 prints a range in US dollars 29 3.8% prints a pay range 221 28.8%; in a board field 146, only in the text 75 expectation roles 34 4.4% required 31 91.2% of askers companies 9 with a printed range 5 14.7% by company: justworks 7, workato 6, smartsheet 5, fireworks 4, clickup 3, rocketlab 3, sumologic 3, vultr 2, cockroachlabs 1 history roles 2 0.3% required 2 100.0% of askers companies 1 with a printed range 0 0.0% by company: smartsheet 2 range_check roles 4 0.5% required 4 100.0% of askers companies 1 with a printed range 1 25.0% by company: samsara 4 offers roles 6 0.8% required 6 100.0% of askers companies 1 with a printed range 0 0.0% by company: palantir 6 pay_other roles 1 0.1% required 1 100.0% of askers companies 1 with a printed range 0 0.0% (below, "printed range" means prints_range) expectation where a range is printed 5 of 221 2.3%; where none is printed 29 of 547 5.3% ######## COMPARISON, companies based elsewhere: roles not open in the US: roles 256, companies 18 prints a range in US dollars 5 2.0% prints a pay range 43 16.8%; in a board field 37, only in the text 6 expectation roles 93 36.3% required 86 92.5% of askers companies 5 with a printed range 3 3.2% by company: airwallex 45, lovable 22, nubank 18, adyen 4, mollie 4 history roles 0 0.0% required 0 n/a of askers companies 0 with a printed range 0 n/a range_check roles 0 0.0% required 0 n/a of askers companies 0 with a printed range 0 n/a offers roles 2 0.8% required 2 100.0% of askers companies 1 with a printed range 0 0.0% by company: stripe 2 pay_other roles 0 0.0% required 0 n/a of askers companies 0 with a printed range 0 n/a (below, "printed range" means prints_range) expectation where a range is printed 3 of 43 7.0%; where none is printed 90 of 213 42.3% ######## main sample: the expectation questions themselves 19 rocketlab required Please share with us your salary expectations. 13 clickup required What is your desired salary range for this role, including base and any variable or on-target earnings? 10 replit required What is your desired salary range? 8 fireworks required Do you have any initial compensation expectations? 8 fireworks optional Do you have any initial compensation expectations? 7 bandwidth required Desired Total Compensation? 7 justworks required What are your salary expectations for this role? 5 twitch optional What is your expected total base pay compensation for your next role. Please do not disclose current or past compensation. 5 vultr required What are your compensation expectations? 1 15five required What is your desired salary range for this role? 1 cockroachlabs optional What are your salary expectations? 1 gopuff required What projected base salary are you looking for? *Note this role is eligible for a performance bonus and equity package* 1 rho required What are your salary expectations? 1 workato required What is your expected compensation? question-in-role counts by answer: {'free_text': 87} question-in-role counts by scope: {'unspecified': 61, 'total': 20, 'base': 6} question-in-role counts by currency: {'none': 87} question-in-role counts by no_history_warning: {False: 82, True: 5} roles by widest scope asked: {'unspecified': 61, 'total': 20, 'base': 6} ######## main sample: company level companies: ask expectations in every US role 9 ['15five', 'bandwidth', 'clickup', 'gopuff', 'justworks', 'replit', 'rho', 'vultr', 'workato']; in some 4 ['cockroachlabs', 'fireworks', 'rocketlab', 'twitch']; in none 123; of 136 companies printing a dollar range in every US role 100, in none 10 ten largest employers in the sample: spacex 238, openai 191, roblox 135, anthropic 133, databricks 103, waymo 96, snowflake 74, palantir 72, coinbase 71, zoox 65 their share of roles 1178 44.2% without the ten largest: roles 1489, expectation 87 5.8%, prints a dollar range 1349 90.6% ######## main sample: by board system greenhouse roles 1689 companies 67 expectation 40 2.4% prints a dollar range 93.3% ashby roles 832 companies 63 expectation 45 5.4% prints a dollar range 92.7% lever roles 146 companies 6 expectation 2 1.4% prints a dollar range 95.9% ######## main sample: by where the role is, against laws.json no state named roles 94 companies 22 prints a dollar range 74 78.7% expectation 13 13.8% only states with a posting law roles 1901 companies 98 prints a dollar range 1838 96.7% expectation 55 2.9% only states without a posting law roles 74 companies 11 prints a dollar range 8 10.8% expectation 10 13.5% remote anywhere in the US offered roles 442 companies 47 prints a dollar range 428 96.8% expectation 6 1.4% some states with a posting law roles 156 companies 21 prints a dollar range 139 89.1% expectation 3 1.9% states in "only states without a posting law": {'TX': 50, 'FL': 11, 'NC': 7, 'TN': 7, 'GA': 3, 'AZ': 3, 'PA': 2, 'OH': 1, 'UT': 1, 'MS': 1} companies there: {'spacex': 34, 'cloudflare': 20, 'bandwidth': 7, 'relativity': 3, 'databricks': 2, 'rocketlab': 2, 'xai': 2, 'gopuff': 1, 'pagerduty': 1, 'samsara': 1, 'sofi': 1} same company, law states against no-law states (dollar range printed / roles): bandwidth with a law 0/0 without 0/7 no-law states ['NC'] cloudflare with a law 1/1 without 0/20 no-law states ['TX'] databricks with a law 91/91 without 2/2 no-law states ['GA', 'OH', 'TX'] gopuff with a law 0/0 without 1/1 no-law states ['FL', 'PA'] pagerduty with a law 0/0 without 1/1 no-law states ['GA'] relativity with a law 16/16 without 3/3 no-law states ['FL'] rocketlab with a law 13/14 without 0/2 no-law states ['AZ'] samsara with a law 7/7 without 1/1 no-law states ['AZ', 'FL', 'GA', 'PA', 'TX'] sofi with a law 0/3 without 0/1 no-law states ['UT'] spacex with a law 163/163 without 0/34 no-law states ['FL', 'TN', 'TX'] xai with a law 45/45 without 0/2 no-law states ['MS', 'TN'] ######## history questions, anywhere smartsheet | Software Engineer - Full Stack | ['Bangalore, INDIA', 'India'] | countries ['India'] | states with a ban named [] | What is your current compensation | required True smartsheet | Sr. Software Engineer II | ['Bangalore, INDIA', 'India'] | countries ['India'] | states with a ban named [] | What is your current compensation? | required True main-sample roles printing a range only in another currency: 24 at {'cloudflare': 11, 'grafanalabs': 8, 'mozilla': 1, 'okta': 1, 'robinhood': 3} main-sample roles whose expectation question warns not to disclose past pay: 5 at ['twitch'] role-pay.json: 3971 roles