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SB5408 • 2026

Wage and salary disclosures

Allowing for corrections to wage and salary disclosures.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Senator King
Last action
2025-02-28
Official status
S subst for
Effective date
Not listed

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Wage and salary disclosures

Wage and salary disclosures

What This Bill Does

  • Wage and salary disclosures

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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5408-S AMH LAWS H2092.1

0 • Labor & Workplace Standards

NOT ADOPTED

Plain English: 5408-S AMH LAWS H2092.1 SSB 5408 - H COMM AMD By Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards NOT ADOPTED 04/15/2025 Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the 1 following: 2 "Sec.

  • 5408-S AMH LAWS H2092.1 SSB 5408 - H COMM AMD By Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards NOT ADOPTED 04/15/2025 Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the 1 following: 2 "Sec.
  • 1.
  • RCW 49.58.110 and 2022 c 242 s 1 are each amended to 3 read as follows: 4 (1) The employer must disclose in each posting for each job 5 opening the wage amount or scale or salary range, and a general 6 description of all of the benefits and other compensation to be 7 offered to the hired applicant.
  • If an employer uses a third party 8 platform or service for the posting and provides the information 9 required by this subsection to the platform or service, then the 10 platform or service is responsible for providing the disclosure 11 required by this subsection, unless the employer directs and controls 12 the publication of the contents of the posting through a registered 13 account with the platform or service.
5408-S AMH FOSS H2247.1

1283 • Fosse

ADOPTED

Plain English: 5408-S AMH FOSS H2247.1 SSB 5408 - H AMD 1283 By Representative Fosse ADOPTED 04/15/2025 Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the 1 following: 2 "Sec.

  • 5408-S AMH FOSS H2247.1 SSB 5408 - H AMD 1283 By Representative Fosse ADOPTED 04/15/2025 Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the 1 following: 2 "Sec.
  • 1.
  • RCW 49.58.110 and 2022 c 242 s 1 are each amended to 3 read as follows: 4 (1) Required disclosures in postings.5 (a) The employer must disclose in each posting for each job 6 opening ((the)): (i) The wage scale or salary range, except where the 7 employer is offering only a fixed wage amount for the opening, the 8 employer must disclose the fixed wage amount rather than a scale or 9 range; and (ii) a general description of all of the benefits and 10 other compensation to be offered to the hired applicant.
  • For the 11 purposes of this section, "posting" means any solicitation intended 12 to recruit job applicants for a specific available position, 13 including recruitment done directly by an employer or indirectly 14 through a third party, and includes any postings done electronically, 15 or with a printed hard copy, that includes qualifications for desired 16 applicants.

Bill History

  1. 2025-02-28 Senate

    1st substitute bill substituted.

Official Summary Text

Wage and salary disclosures

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
AN ACT Relating to allowing for corrections to wage and salary 1
disclosures; and amending RCW 49.58.110. 2
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:3
Sec. 1. RCW 49.58.110 and 2022 c 242 s 1 are each amended to 4
read as follows: 5
(1) The employer must disclose in each posting for each job 6
opening the wage scale or salary range, and a general description of 7
all of the benefits and other compensation to be offered to the hired 8
applicant. For the purposes of this section, "posting" means any 9
solicitation intended to recruit job applicants for a specific 10
available position, including recruitment done directly by an 11
employer or indirectly through a third party, and includes any 12
postings done electronically, or with a printed hard copy, that 13
includes qualifications for desired applicants. 14
(2) Upon request of an employee offered an internal transfer to a 15
new position or promotion, the employer must provide the wage scale 16
or salary range for the employee's new position. 17
(3) This section only applies to employers with 15 or more 18
employees. 19
(4)(a) A job applicant or an employee is entitled to the remedies 20
in RCW 49.58.060 and 49.58.070 for violations of this section , 21
S-0708.1
SENATE BILL 5408
State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session
By Senator King
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subject to (b) of this subsection. Recovery of any wages and interest 1
must be calculated from the first date wages were owed to the 2
employee. 3
(b) The department or job applicant must provide written notice 4
to an employer that the employer's posting does not comply with 5
subsection (1) of this section. If the employer corrects their 6
posting within 10 business days of the written notice, no penalties, 7
damages, or other relief may be assessed to the employer.8
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