Pay transparency laws by state (2026)
A growing number of US states and cities have rules about what pay information has to appear in a public job posting. What they require is not the same everywhere: some ask for a range in the posting itself, some also ask for a benefits description, and some address pay disclosure without requiring a range up front. Remote roles are where this most often gets missed, because a posting that a person in a covered state could fill can be in scope no matter where the company sits.
Where Relio checks against a maintained ruleset
Relio maintains a reviewed ruleset covering pay-transparency and job-posting rules in the states and cities below. Each rule carries its own citation and the date a person last checked it against the primary source. The linked places also have a full guide, which answers the question directly, cites the statute and the enforcing agency, and covers remote roles and what happens when a posting is missing the information.
The rules are not variations on one template. Colorado reaches any role a Coloradan could do remotely, while Massachusetts asks instead where the role's primary place of work is. Illinois can place liability on the job board that published your posting; Colorado does not. New York wants the job description alongside the pay. Those differences are why a single company-wide posting standard tends to be wrong in at least one direction.
States
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New York
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
Cities
- Cincinnati, OH
- Cleveland, OH
- Columbus, OH
- Ithaca, NY
- Jersey City, NJ
- New York City, NY
- Toledo, OH
Checking your own postings
Knowing the rule is the easy half. The harder half is knowing which of your live postings currently show the information and which do not, especially once a posting has been published to more than one place. Relio reviews the public postings on your careers site and returns what appears to be missing, with a link to each posting it read.
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Relio identifies potential public-posting concerns based on available information. Findings are operational guidance, not legal advice.