Philadelphia employers will no longer be able to ask job applicants about salary history under an ordinance (Bill No. 160840) that Mayor Jim Kenney signed into law on Jan. 23.

The measure, effective May 23, makes Philadelphia the latest jurisdiction to combat pay discrimination by imposing limitations on the way employers use workers’ salary histories to set compensation. Massachusetts included a ban on salary history queries as part of a sweeping equal pay law that was signed Aug. 1, 2016. Also in 2016, California addressed salary histories in an amendment to its existing equal pay law. READ MORE