# Establish Compensation Range and Employment Parameters

Status: draft · v0.1.0 · Hiring System
draft reference — not a fitted standard

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
1. Confirm the role and decision frame — Anchor pay to approved work before looking at candidates or market titles.
2. Establish internal alignment — Place the role coherently relative to comparable work and the company’s career architecture.
3. Define the relevant talent market — Choose comparison data based on where talent comes from and goes—not convenient survey labels.
4. Construct the hiring range — Translate internal alignment and market intent into an administrable pay boundary.
5. Set total compensation and employment parameters — Define the complete hiring frame without presenting uncertain components as equivalent.
6. Test affordability, consistency, and risk — Expose the organizational effects of the proposed hiring frame before approval.
7. Approve and publish the parameters — Create one controlled boundary for sourcing and eventual offer placement.

## Connections
- upstream: Define Role and Success Profile (/processes/define-role-success-profile) — trigger: The role profile is approved.
- downstream: Open and Source the Role (/processes/open-and-source-role) — trigger: Parameters are approved and the role is authorized to open.
- downstream: Approve and Issue the Offer (/processes/approve-and-issue-offer) — trigger: A selected candidate advances to offer approval.

## Measures
- Range operating fit: Combined review of filled-role outcomes, accepted pay, internal relationship, budget, and market evidence without attributing results to range alone.
- Decision evidence completeness: Approved records satisfying required evidence fields divided by all approved records.
- Range decision cycle time: Elapsed time from role-profile approval to parameter publication.
- Parameter adoption: Downstream artifacts linked to the current approved version divided by all applicable artifacts.
- Range exception rate: Approved and attempted deviations by reason, role, manager, market, and disposition per hiring decision.
- Consistency and equity guardrail: Structured review of comparable pay relationships and documented legitimate factors; not a legal conclusion.