This job pays $60,000 – or maybe $150,000: companies skirt New York salary law

The city is seeking transparency in job ads - but employers aren't exactly abiding by the spirit of the measure

Do you want to know how much money your future co-workers will make? Take a look at new job postings in New York City. One Deloitte ad promises compensation between $86,800 and $161,200 a year. A technical writer at Amazon can expect to make somewhere in the range of $125,800 to $211,300. And a head of news audio at the Wall Street Journal will earn somewhere in the range of $140,000 to $450,000. That's a difference of $305,000.

These astronomical figures became social media joke fodder after the reporter Victoria M Walker rounded up the most ridiculous ranges in a Twitter thread. With NYC's salary law now in place, I've been looking at some companies' salary ranges, & I can already see that the good faith' part of the law is going to be tested," she wrote, setting off a slew of responses naming and shaming such listings.