Score a posting batch before it goes live

Price the penalty on a job ad with no salary range — before it goes live, in the state that actually applies

Covered?
Statute in force
What one violation costs
Exposure on this batchUSD
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Export this scored batch as a .csv audit register you own and hand to counsel, and get reminders 30, 14 and 1 day before each go-live date. $60 once · one licence key per person or team seat · 7-day full refund. Employment counsel bills roughly $350–$500 an hour to review a multi-state posting template.

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Nine jurisdictions, each with its own unit
Virginia, Washington, California, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts and New York City each price a missing pay range differently: Washington and Maryland charge per affected applicant, the rest per posting, and NYC caps the whole cumulative violation at $250,000.
In force on your go-live date
Compares the posting's go-live date against the statute's start date, so a Virginia ad dated before 2026-07-01 is not scored as a violation and one dated after it is.
Employee-count threshold per state
Colorado, Virginia and Maryland cover every private employer; Illinois, Washington and California start at 15, New Jersey at 10, Massachusetts at 25, NYC at 4. The tool answers covered or not covered for your headcount.
First violation versus repeat
Massachusetts is a written warning first and up to $25,000 for a repeat; California runs $100 to $10,000; Virginia $1,000 then $5,000. The repeat checkbox switches the rate.
Dollar exposure for the batch
Multiplies the per-unit rate by postings, and by applicants per posting where the state counts applicants, then applies the NYC cumulative cap.
CSV register and go-live reminders
The full version exports the scored batch as a .csv audit register and schedules 30-day, 14-day and 1-day reminders before the go-live date you entered.

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Price the penalty on a job ad with no salary range — before it goes live, in the state that actually applies

An employment-law firm charges $350-$500/hour to review a multi-state posting template; a single Washington class claim starts at $5,000 in statutory damages per affected applicant

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Questions people ask

What does this actually do?

You pick the state, the go-live date, your headcount and how many postings in the batch have no pay range. It answers four things: whether that state covers an employer your size, which statute and start date apply, what one violation costs there, and the dollar exposure across the batch. Washington and Maryland price per affected applicant, the others per posting.

Who is this for?

In-house and agency recruiters and small-business hiring managers who post the same requisition into several US states. If you run one careers page that reaches Virginia, Washington and New Jersey applicants, three different rate structures land on the same ad and nobody in the room knows which one bites hardest.

Why will a free chatbot not do this?

Because the rates and start dates moved this year and a language model answers from the text it was trained on. Virginia's posting duty only began 2026-07-01 and Maine's on 2026-07-29. A model that predates those dates will confidently tell you Virginia has no posting rule, and it will quote per-posting money for Washington, which charges per applicant.

What is free and what costs money?

Every calculation is free, forever, with no key, no watermark and no run limit. All nine jurisdictions, unlimited batches, in the popup and on the web page. The $60 licence adds two things on a different axis: a .csv export of the scored batch that you own and can hand to counsel, and reminders 30, 14 and 1 day before a go-live date.

What would this cost me otherwise?

Employment counsel bills roughly $350 to $500 an hour to review a multi-state posting template, and that review is stale the next time a state moves. On the other side, Washington's statutory damages start at $5,000 per affected applicant, and Massachusetts can reach $25,000 per violation for a repeat offender.

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