Press Release from Office of Governor Maura Healey
On July 31, 2024, Governor Maura T. Healey signed into law An Act relative to salary range transparency (H.4890), which increases equity and transparency in pay by requiring employers to disclose salary ranges and protecting an employee’s right to ask for salary ranges. [The link to the bill above will be updated with the session law information next week.]
Press Release from Office of Senate President Karen Spilka
On July 24, 2024, the Massachusetts Legislature passed 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.
"We are very pleased to submit this conference committee report on an Act relative to salary range transparency. We are grateful for the advocacy by so many people and for our collaboration between the House and Senate in finalizing this important bill, including the work of former Chair Josh Cutler.
"This bill would require the disclosure of a pay range for any job being offered by an employer with at least 25 employees. An employee would be allowed to request the pay range for their current position. Studies show that women and people of color under value their own work. These actions would ensure that people know the value of their labor and can negotiate for better pay with access to better information.”
"The bill also includes new data collection provisions to help identify gender and racial wage gaps within business sectors. Data collection is vital as we cannot fix what we don’t measure.”
“We look forward to final passage and the governor’s signature.”
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