I don't think you understand where I am coming from but I don't blame you. There is a budget for every company. Now, let's say you in charge of the hiring process and you have a budget, you will need to know how to optimize your budget as well. You have to be smart. Of course it is very easy for anyone and everyone to say "just hire and fire" and these are the people who don't know how tough it can be with the time and process involved. At the same time, I don't see anything wrong with companies disclosing how much someone earns. Why should people be afraid? If they are really as good as what they say they are, any company would pay them a good price.

Have you ever asked yourself why people fake their pay slips to begin with? I am sure you have not and you really need to think hard about this question.

You said it yourself. You have a fix budget to fill a vacancy, if a candidate is too expensive to fill, you move to another one that if affordable.

You hire a jiken also won't do shit like this, will you question the OKT on his pricing structure? will you ask for transparency on how he came up with this rate? No, you either buy or don't buy.

You don't see anything wrong in any companies disclosing it, other companies may think differently as they are mitigating risks. They do not want to be seen influencing decisions elsewhere that has got nothing to do with them. Why disclose irrelevant information to irrelevant people when it has got nothing to do with the company's business operations, profit and bottomline but exposing the company to a risk of potential lawsuits? That's why you don't understand how the big leagues play......

People can fake their payslips and it's not up to you to prove it.....remember if you go to court to prove that they used fake slips, the judge will then ask how did you acquire the evidence, if you did it through non-legally compliant means, the evidence will not be admissible. So you also be another sohai in front of the judge