Your Next Employer Already Knows the Lowest Salary You will Accept. An Algorithm Told Them.

Your potential future employer knows how much they can lowball you on salary... and you aren't even aware of it. A MarketWatch article from last week uncovered something that many of us in the developer world haven't yet considered. Companies have started using vendors that employ artificial intelligence to scrape your personal data, with the end goal of determining the lowest possible wage at which they could hire you. Not your skills. Not your experience. Your overall financial vulnerability. They Want to Pay You the Minimum You'd Accept Then, they want to make exactly that offer. They're calling it "surveillance wages," and it's not a one-off or unusual thing. The report lists large U.S. employers as clients of these vendors. The Washington Center for Equitable Growth audited 500 AI labor-management vendors last August. What they found is wild. Employers in healthcare, customer service, logistics, and retail are buying tools that analyze your payday loan history, credit card balance