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What is the Wage/Salary-Range?

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The field Wage/Salary Range in the hiring request and the job opening belongs to the structured salary data.

We have introduced structured salary data into the job opening to proactively meet the requirements of the upcoming revision of the Pay Transparency Act of 2017 (coming into effect in 2026). Although the law is not yet in force, we want to ensure that you, as our customers, are prepared at an early stage for the upcoming requirements and enjoy legal certainty. By integrating the wage/salary range, you can already create transparency and strengthen the trust of potential applicants.

Legal Background
Quote from Haufe: "On June 6, 2023, the European Pay Transparency Directive (EU/2023/970) came into force. It brings expanded information rights and reporting obligations, as well as compensation claims in cases of gender-based pay discrimination."
More information here: Forwarding to our blog with more information

Your Benefits

  • Increased attractiveness of job advertisements
    By using the salary data fields, you can meet the growing demand for salary transparency in the job market. Applicants increasingly expect clear information about salary structures, making your job advertisements more attractive and attracting more qualified applications.
  • More efficient application process
    Clear salary details make the application process more efficient. Applicants can quickly assess whether the job offer suits them, which optimises the selection process for both sides.
  • Strengthening the employer brand
    By including transparent salary information in your job advertisements, you strengthen your employer brand. You position yourselves as progressive and compliant employers who support openness and fairness.
  • Attracting qualified talent
    Open and transparent salary information increases the chance of attracting qualified talent who feel more addressed by clear information and gain trust in you as an employer.
  • Promoting an open and fair company culture
    By practicing salary transparency, you contribute to promoting an open and fair company culture, which can positively influence employee satisfaction and retention in the long term.
  • Representation on job boards
    We have designed the feature so that the values can be transferred to job boards and read by them. StepStone, Google for Jobs and others can display the values accordingly.

Configuration

More details here: Pay Transparency Act: Implementing requirements with d.vinci

System behavior

  • Usage
    If you use the field and display it externally via a placeholder, you have many benefits.
  • Prerequisite
    To make the information from the field visible to applicants (for example on your website or within a correspondence template), it must be displayed in the field schema configuration of the hiring request or the job opening and then inserted via placeholder into the correspondence template or the job advertisement template.
  • Elements of the function
    • Field for the minimum value
      Enter the minimum that can be earned in the position.
      Special note for the transfer to StepStone: This field must be maintained together with the maximum value; otherwise, StepStone will not display the salary range in job advertisements.
    • To symbol
    • Field for the maximum value
      Enter the maximum that can be earned in the position.
      Special note for the transfer to StepStone: This field must be maintained together with the minimum value; otherwise, StepStone will not display the salary range in job advertisements.
    • Currency selection field
      Select the currency code according to the international ISO 4217 standard.
      You can start typing to narrow down the selection list.
    • gross per
    • Selection field for the payment period
      Select the payment period:
      • Hour
      • Day
      • Month
      • Year
  • Transfer from hiring request to job opening
    If you complete a hiring request and create a new job opening from it, the data from the wage/salary range fields is transferred to the job opening.
  • External display
    • Formatting
      The formatting is automatically corrected. Example: you enter a minimum value of 1300.00 and a maximum value of 1,400.50. Externally, it will always be displayed in the format X,XXX.XX.
    • Display of the entered values
      • Minimum value
        If you only enter the minimum, it will be displayed externally as: minimum 13.00 EUR gross per hour.
      • Maximum value
        If you only enter the maximum, it will be displayed externally as: maximum 15.00 EUR gross per hour.
      • Minimum and maximum value
        If you enter both values, it will be displayed externally as: 13.00 to 15.00 EUR gross per hour.
      • Same values
        If you enter the same value twice, it will be displayed as: 15.00 EUR gross per hour.
    • Special consideration for StepStone
      For displaying the salary range on StepStone, both minimum and maximum values must be entered. If only one value is maintained, StepStone will not display the salary range in job advertisements.
  • Placeholder
    With the placeholder Job Opening – Wage/Salary Range {JOB_OPENING:SALARY_RANGE}, you can insert the values into the job advertisement template and make them visible to applicants, or display the value in emails to applicants via the correspondence template. To display the salary range including a euro icon below the position title, add the following HTML line in the Position/Details container of the job advertisement template via the source code function:
<li><i class="fas fa-fw fa-euro-sign"></i> {JOB_OPENING:SALARY_RANGE}</li>

      This must be added via the source code function.

  • Where should the placeholder be inserted in the job advertisement template?
    The law requires that the information must be included in the job advertisement – but not where exactly. So you have creative freedom.
    Our recommendation:
    From our point of view, it makes the most sense to insert the salary range in the contents of the introduction – where the location, working times, and contract duration are also maintained.
    Why?
    • Immediately visible – without scrolling
    • Applicants expect key data there
    • Shows transparency from the very beginning
    • Job boards also display salary prominently
  • Note on extraction by job boards
    Job boards find the information about the wage/salary range in the structured data they retrieve for a job advertisement via a technical connection using JSON, XML, or RSS. In this case, the value is located between these two expressions: <salaryRange>value</salaryRange>.
    The job boards may decide to display the information at a position they define within the job advertisement.
  • Renaming
    You cannot influence how the placeholder is resolved. It always follows the schema described in External display on this page. This ensures that job boards can read the values correctly in the future. However, you can choose how you introduce the placeholder. For example, we wrote in our tests:
    "This is what you can earn with us: 13.00 to 15.00 EUR gross per hour"
  • Deletion
    If you delete values from the job opening, they will no longer be displayed in the job posting.
    In emails, the value remains visible in already sent messages, but it will no longer appear in new emails.

How our customers use this

The function is new, so we do not yet know how you will use it. However, we hope that you will want to provide applicants with transparency about the possible wage/salary with you. We see many advantages for you and the applicants. You will be pioneers in salary transparency in the recruiting market and will not need to make major adjustments once the law comes into effect. You can instead focus fully on defining the guidelines according to which you determine your salary levels.

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