The old norm treats salary like a secret, withheld until a late-stage conversation, sometimes used as a negotiating advantage. We ask every company we work with to do the opposite: publish the real range before the role ever goes live.
What hiding the number actually costs you
When a range is hidden, candidates self-select in or out blind, and companies lose strong candidates late, after weeks of interviews, over a number that could have been settled on day one. Opacity doesn't protect a company's budget. It just moves the disagreement to a worse moment.
What we ask of every partner company
A published range is a condition of listing a role through Kinship, not a suggestion. It's a small, concrete expression of Rooted Integrity: the idea that nothing about how a process works should be hidden from the person it affects most.
It's also a filter, and that's useful
Companies that resist publishing a range are usually telling us something about how they'll handle other hard conversations later. Requiring transparency upfront naturally selects for the partners who are actually aligned with how we work, which is Collective Kinship in practice, not just in name.
A number on a job post is a small thing. Treating it honestly turns out to say a lot.