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How Workers Are Using New Salary Transparency Laws to Land Raises
From New York City to California, pay ranges on job ads are giving people leverage and power in negotiations.
Erin Gabriel landed a position in nonprofit communications that pays twice what she was making as a teacher, plus bonuses and guaranteed raises.
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When Erin Gabriel was looking to leave teaching for a new career, she didn’t waste her time applying to openings that paid too little.
Gabriel lives in Colorado — a state where employers are required to include pay information in job ads, which made it easy for her to ignore anything with a salary range that fell below her standards.