(BOSTON 7/29/2024) – Last week, the Massachusetts Legislature took a powerful step towards closing the gender and racial wage gap in the Commonwealth by passing An Act relative to salary range transparency. The legislation requires employers with 25 or more employees to disclose a salary range when posting a position and protects an employee’s right to ask their employer for the salary range for their position when applying for a job or seeking a promotion.

When signed into law, H.4890 would make Massachusetts the eleventh state to mandate pay transparency by requiring employers to disclose salary ranges, according to the National Women’s Law Center. H.4890 builds on the Legislature’s 2016 passage of the Massachusetts Equal Pay Act, which prohibited wage discrimination based on gender and brought long-sought fairness and equality to workplaces in the state.

“Salary transparency is key to ensuring employees are getting fair and equal compensation for their work,” said Senator Michael Moore (D-Millbury). “Requiring employers include salary ranges in job listings will allow employees to better understand what their colleagues and peers are being paid – critically important when negotiating compensation. I’m proud that the Legislature is once again stepping up to close the gender and racial pay gap, and I look forward to seeing this bill get signed into law.”

Having passed both chambers, the bill now goes to Governor Maura Healey’s desk for her signature.

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