Should Salary Be Included in a Job Advertisement?

Employer Insights | Recruitment Strategy

There isn’t a single answer that suits every vacancy.

Salary transparency can help candidates assess whether an opportunity is realistic before applying and can reduce time spent speaking with applicants whose expectations are significantly different.

However, organisations sometimes require flexibility because salary depends on experience, internal structures or the scarcity of a particular skill.

Where a salary cannot be advertised, employers should still establish a realistic range internally before beginning recruitment.

One of the fastest ways to lose a strong candidate is to reach the final stage of a recruitment process only to discover that salary expectations and the available budget were never aligned.