A posted salary is good, a posted range better than nothing, but I'd personally rather see all salary information made public, with names attached. I work for

A posted salary is good, a posted range better than nothing, but I'd personally rather see all salary information made public, with names attached. I work for the University of California, so my salary is a matter of public record, along with all state employees. So be it. The sky hasn't fallen. One big problem with making salary info public is that if it is one sided (some firms do this and others don't), it can place the firms that do make it public at a disadvantage. There are also some issues with the government forcing private firms to disclose this information. At the very least, I'd say that any firm using the H1-B visa should be required to make all salaries public, not just salaries for H1-B hires. If you're going to claim that you can't hire (or retain) staff and need a special visa for this, let's see those numbers. I'm not saying I don't believe it, just that it's hard to take this seriously when they are very secretive about their own information but want the power to decide who is going to be permitted to live and work in the US and at what salary. If you want to keep it private, that's fine, you just don't get the power to bestow temporary residency for the purposes of working for your firm.