What it means for you
Since Nov. 1, 2022, NYC employment agencies and covered employers—generally those with four or more workers—must list a good-faith minimum and maximum base pay in ads for jobs, promotions, and transfers performed in the city.
Who benefits: Job seekers and workers considering a New York City job, promotion, or transfer advertised by an employment agency, an employer with four or more employees, or an employer with at least one domestic worker.
If you’re looking for work in New York City, an ad covered by the law has to state the base pay. The law generally covers employers with four or more people in their workforce, employment agencies of any size, and employers of at least one domestic worker. Temporary help firms advertising for their own pools are exempt. Ads must list the lowest and highest annual salary or hourly wage the employer honestly expects to offer. Internal promotion and transfer postings are covered, and an open-ended line like “$20 an hour and up” doesn’t count.
Anyone can report a missing range to the NYC Commission on Human Rights. Current employees can also sue their own employer. An employer can avoid a penalty for a first complaint by fixing it within 30 days of notice. An uncured first or later violation can bring damages and civil penalties up to $250,000. A 2025 Council report found that most of the more than 60,000 postings analyzed from late 2023 complied.
Council Member Helen Rosenthal introduced the bill in 2018, and the Council passed it in December 2021. Co-sponsors included Justin Brannan, the bill’s first co-sponsor, Adrienne Adams, who became Council Speaker weeks later, and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. PowHer New York described the law as part of its coalition’s decade-long campaign to close gender and racial wage gaps. Mayor Eric Adams returned the bill unsigned, so it became law on January 15, 2022. A follow-up law pushed the start date to November 1, 2022.
Work and wagesRights
Sources
- Int. 1208-2018, prohibiting employers from posting job listings without minimum and maximum salary informationNew York City Council, January 15, 2022
- Salary Transparency in Job AdvertisementsNYC Commission on Human Rights
- NYC Council Amends Law Requiring Disclosure of Salary Ranges in Job Postings, Delays Effective Date to November 1, 2022Davis Wright Tremaine, April 29, 2022
- Investigation reveals job search platforms leave out required salary information for thousands of jobsNew York City Council, January 30, 2025
- NYC Salary Transparency Law Hailed as Transformative Step Toward Wage EquityPowHer New York, January 17, 2022
How we checked this
Drafted by Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) on November 11, 2026. Checked against its sources by GPT-5.6-sol (OpenAI) on November 11, 2026, which corrected it. Confirmed the enactment history, enforcement rules, sponsors, and current status. Corrected the coverage exceptions, compliance-study description, advocacy history, and omitted first co-sponsor.
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