Previous employer we never asked nor cared about your salary history. We would state early in the interview cycle that the job was a Grade X and likely pay was Y. If that was OK with you, we proceeded with the process. During the interview rounds, a HR person would explain benefit package of insurance, 401K, vacation, etc.
Then we made an offer and you took it or not. Not a lot of back and forth. We had a salary range for Grade X and we would depending on your experience compared to others in that same Grade, we would go up or down a few bucks so our compensation was fair and consistent.
This is pandering to the Equal Pay crowd
In all of my years working in managerial roles I never once asked anyone about their salary history. I’m not hiring someone to do their last job. I’m hiring them to do their next one.
yours is the way it should be and that’s the way I found it to be with most prospective employers.
I ran into mostly head hunters wanting to know my salary history.