With Massachusetts leading the charge in August of 2017, California, Oregon, Delaware, and Puerto Rico have now made
certain salary questions illegal, with the laws going into effect at the end of 2017 and into 2018.
In an effort to learn more about how commonly the
question is asked of prospective employees, whether it is asked more or less for
certain types of workers, how likely interviewees are to answer the
question, and whether refusing to answer has any effect on an employer's
salary offer, PayScale surveyed our users.