Key takeaways
- Publishing salary information can help applicants make informed decisions.
- Transparent pay should be paired with fair, skills-based assessment.
- Hiring systems need to work better for jobseekers and employers alike.
Including salaries on job adverts would significantly help jobseekers, but further reforms are needed to transform hiring, according to the Better Hiring Institute.
The organisation said pay transparency can remove an unnecessary barrier at the start of the recruitment process, helping candidates decide whether opportunities are suitable before investing time in an application.
“Salary transparency is an important first step, but it is not the finish line.”
Better Hiring Institute
The Better Hiring Institute said a fairer labour market also needs recruitment processes that assess people on their skills and potential rather than relying solely on previous job titles, qualifications or conventional CV signals.
It said employers should be supported to create clearer routes into work, while applicants should have better information about roles, pay and progression opportunities.
What could change
The Institute called for changes that make hiring more transparent and more inclusive, arguing that salary information should be one part of a wider effort to improve the jobs market for people looking for work and for organisations looking to hire.
