Even if it were, how bad is public salary info? For h1b holders that info is mildly public: https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=google&job=software+engineer&city

Even if it were, how bad is public salary info? For h1b holders that info is mildly public: https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=google&job=software+engineer&city=mountain+view&year=2022 https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=google&job=software+engine... In Washington state, all public employee salary information is not anonymous at all: https://fiscal.wa.gov/salaries.aspx https://fiscal.wa.gov/salaries.aspx Companies already pay to get explicit salary info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753 When companies have access to wage info, but workers don't, that creates asymmetric information in favor of businesses. In exchange for giving up some privacy, my negotiating power, and therefore theoretically my ability to negotiate pay goes up. I would rather have my salary public than to potentially be underpaid by several tens of thousands of dollars.