{"slug":"establish-compensation-range","name":"Establish Compensation Range and Employment Parameters","family":"Hiring System","version":"0.1.0","status":"draft","note":"draft reference — not a fitted standard","summary":"Convert an approved role into an affordable, internally coherent, market-informed, and reviewable hiring range and employment frame.","purpose":"Give sourcing, selection, and offer processes one authorized compensation and employment boundary before candidates influence the decision.","steps":[{"sequence":1,"name":"Confirm the role and decision frame","purpose":"Anchor pay to approved work before looking at candidates or market titles."},{"sequence":2,"name":"Establish internal alignment","purpose":"Place the role coherently relative to comparable work and the company’s career architecture."},{"sequence":3,"name":"Define the relevant talent market","purpose":"Choose comparison data based on where talent comes from and goes—not convenient survey labels."},{"sequence":4,"name":"Construct the hiring range","purpose":"Translate internal alignment and market intent into an administrable pay boundary."},{"sequence":5,"name":"Set total compensation and employment parameters","purpose":"Define the complete hiring frame without presenting uncertain components as equivalent."},{"sequence":6,"name":"Test affordability, consistency, and risk","purpose":"Expose the organizational effects of the proposed hiring frame before approval."},{"sequence":7,"name":"Approve and publish the parameters","purpose":"Create one controlled boundary for sourcing and eventual offer placement."}],"connections":[{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Define Role and Success Profile","processSlug":"define-role-success-profile","trigger":"The role profile is approved."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Open and Source the Role","processSlug":"open-and-source-role","trigger":"Parameters are approved and the role is authorized to open."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Approve and Issue the Offer","processSlug":"approve-and-issue-offer","trigger":"A selected candidate advances to offer approval."}],"plannedConnections":[],"measures":[{"name":"Range operating fit","definition":"Combined review of filled-role outcomes, accepted pay, internal relationship, budget, and market evidence without attributing results to range alone.","cadence":"Quarterly or at defined review trigger"},{"name":"Decision evidence completeness","definition":"Approved records satisfying required evidence fields divided by all approved records.","cadence":"At approval"},{"name":"Range decision cycle time","definition":"Elapsed time from role-profile approval to parameter publication.","cadence":"Monthly"},{"name":"Parameter adoption","definition":"Downstream artifacts linked to the current approved version divided by all applicable artifacts.","cadence":"Per role"},{"name":"Range exception rate","definition":"Approved and attempted deviations by reason, role, manager, market, and disposition per hiring decision.","cadence":"Quarterly"},{"name":"Consistency and equity guardrail","definition":"Structured review of comparable pay relationships and documented legitimate factors; not a legal conclusion.","cadence":"At approval and periodic review"}]}