Lots of people here talking from their own experience as highly skilled, in-demand professionals. However, helping friends apply to jobs in other industries -

Lots of people here talking from their own experience as highly skilled, in-demand professionals. However, helping friends apply to jobs in other industries - specifically medical - I saw that most of the applications involved filling out an automated form that required prior salary information to complete. There's no advantage to an employee from being forced to disclose this information and it perpetuates compensation discrepancies by gender/race/guts to ask. Very glad to see this made illegal. Now, if they were really serious about fixing pay discrepancies, they'd make it mandatory to post salary ranges with job listings.