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Pay transparency: why an above-range hire becomes a risk later

That hire you paid above the range to land quickly? Under pay transparency, it becomes much harder to explain.

Sara HillCEO, RoleMapper

That hire you paid above the range to land quickly? Under pay transparency, it becomes much harder to explain.

Sara Hill of RoleMapper on why fast pay decisions need revisiting before transparency rules bring them into the open.

For HR, talent acquisition, reward teams and hiring managers.

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You urgently need someone. There's only one candidate who can do the job and they ask for more. You hire them above range. And at the time, it's totally the right decision. Nobody made a bad call. Two years later, however, right, the business has changed. That person is still paid more than everyone else in the team or in the role. And often nobody remembers why. So, again, why this really matters now is that pay transparency laws and the groundswell of requests for pay transparency expand your audience. You know, what was once hidden is now like really visible. So companies can't stop making fast decisions, but they need to revisit them and correct them if that reason no longer applies.

From the webinar · Oct 2026

How to Build Defensible Pay in the Age of Pay Transparency and AI

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