More and more companies are making pay transparency a priority—from explaining how they come up with salaries to internally disseminating salary information for every employee.
Nearly 65 percent of workplaces where the average wage is less than $13 an hour require mandatory arbitration agreements for employees. The U.S. Supreme Court is looking at these agreements.
In addition to potentially embarrassing companies that report gargantuan wage gaps, advocates for disclosure say that pay transparency will embolden employees to demand higher wages.