The usual way to answer "does my posting need a salary range?" is to search "does [state] require a salary range in job postings," read whichever page ranks first, and eyeball your own draft against it. That answers the legal question well enough most of the time. It does not scan the posting you actually wrote, and it does not scale past one or two states.
A one-off search is free and needs no tool: type the state name, read the first confident-sounding answer. It works fine for a single-state posting and a careful reader.
This checker scans the exact text you drafted for a stated range, checks it against every state the role could be filled from in one pass, and names the specific law, effective date, and threshold for each state that requires one — from one paste rather than several searches and a manual re-read.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| Does Colorado require a posted pay range? | Either one. A single search answers this, and so does this checker's table. |
| Does the posting I already wrote actually have a range in it? | This checker. A search engine has never seen your draft; it can only tell you the rule, not whether your wording satisfies it. |
| A remote posting is open to candidates in six states — which ones need a range? | This checker, in one pass. Six separate searches plus a manual cross-check against one draft is the same task done the slow way. |
| Is anything I paste uploaded anywhere? | Neither. A search involves no tool of ours at all, and this checker runs entirely in your browser. |
It answers the single-state legal question, and plenty of free pages already answer it correctly. What it does not do is look at your actual posting text and tell you whether it already has a range in the shape the law expects — that is a second, separate step a search result cannot do for you.
Two things bundled together: a scan of the exact wording you already drafted (does it read as a range, a single figure, or nothing), and the requirement for every state the role could be filled from checked in one pass — rather than one search per state and a manual re-read of your draft against each answer.
A single-state posting only needs one search. A remote posting open to candidates in ten states needs ten separate lookups done correctly and then cross-referenced against one draft by hand — exactly the kind of repetitive check that is easy to get half-right under deadline pressure, and easy to re-run here in one pass.
No, and it says so on every page. It names the public law for each state so the next step is reading that law's current text or your state labor agency's guidance, not a general search that may surface an outdated summary.