Amazon, BofA Join Employers That Won’t Ask for Pay History

Job applicants at Amazon’s second headquarters won’t be asked to divulge their salary history during the application process, as the Seattle-based tech giant recently decided to ban the inquiries.

And in three of the 20 potential future homes for Amazon’s HQ2, it would be illegal to ask anyway.

Recent decisions by Amazon and Bank of America Corp. to ban pay history questions on job applications follow a trend set by several states and cities that banned the pay history question in an effort to promote pay equity between men and women.

The intent of the local laws and employer policies ...