> Also: "Potential employees of employers use public data to figure out the highest salary they'll offer"

What sort of both-sides nonsense is this? The power imbalance is the reason this is noteworthy. They aren't the same.

I think we are done with the "power imbalance" lens on everything.

What I want in comp is a mixture of what I know you can pay and what I can get elsewhere.

What you want to pay is a mixture of what you think I'll be ok with and what you can get someone "just as good" for.

It takes two to tango.