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What Is Your Current Salary?

For eons it's been standard operating procedure to ask job candidates: "What is your current salary?" The motives for this question are obvious. If your current salary is beyond that budgeted for the job you're interviewing for, then employers often and quickly exclude you from the candidate pool, while those with lower current salaries are assumed to be more likely to accept an offer. Employers can also offer those with lower current salaries, lower offers to take the new job.

This Practice is Damaging

This is changing, however, as legislators in multiple states have outlawed companies from asking about job candidates' salary histories. Policymakers' motives are to help eliminate one factor contributing to persistent gender and minority compensation disparities. In support, Susie Clark, director of undergraduate studies at the University of Indiana's Kelley School of Business, says: "Gender pay inequality will go on forever if we don't do something." Eliminating the question about salary is expected to focus employers' attention on job qualifications, such as skills, abilities, and experience, and to use market data to set pay. Put differently, the argument by some is employers should not be making offer decisions based on a candidate's current or past pay.

Such Changes Would Be Ineffective

Many HR experts and executives disagree and argue banning the box will not have the desired effect of reducing unwarranted pay disparities. They argue it is reasonable and necessary for employers to learn during the interviewing process if they can reasonably expect to meet a candidate's pay expectations.

Alternatives Already Exist

Some companies and HR managers have already devised and implemented alternatives, particularly in instances when considerable and accurate market data exists. This information enables them to confidently "price" jobs. Still other employers determine and implement pay ranges which allow for some adjustment based on an individual's qualifications. But neither of these provide insights into candidate expectations.

What Would You Do?

Assuming you are the person responsible for setting the practices at your company. What would you recommend?

1. Eliminate such questions from your hiring process. Why? 2. Would not eliminate such questions from your hiring process. Why? 3. Would implement an alternative to the questions. Describe how you would implement this practice. 4. Should employees be able to share knowledge of their salaries with each other?

Adapted from: Kinicki, A. (2021). What is your current salary? Organizational behavior. (3rd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.