Nine months of pay ranges on every Ontario posting: what moved and what did not

We went the other way and kept the full range, because advertising a narrower one than the range that actually applies to the job felt like the thing the rules were written to stop. Our counsel was not comfortable with a hiring range that excluded where a third of incumbents already sit. Worth asking yours.

Those 22 people below the minimum are the real finding. We had 47 out of 3,300 when we started posting in British Columbia, and fixing them before the adverts went live cost less than one agency fee per head. Did you correct yours immediately or wait for the review cycle?

Immediately, within the same month and backdated to the date the advert appeared. Total cost was about 96,000 dollars a year. On range width, we have since narrowed to minimum through 60% of range for most roles, after checking with counsel that it reflects what we genuinely expect to pay a new hire.

One more effect nobody warned us about: agencies. Our external recruiters kept advertising the same roles with their own invented ranges, sometimes 15% higher than ours. We had to add a clause to the terms of business requiring them to use our figures.