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Pay transparency in Canada: from compliance to competitive advantage
Since early 2026, Ontario employers have to post a salary range. Almost 3 in 4 Canadian employees told us that isn't what they actually want.
We asked 449 employees and 298 HR leaders across Canada what pay transparency really means to them.
Inside: the data, a 5-step plan sized for a growing company, and ten years of running fully transparent pay at Alan.
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What over 700 Canadians actually told us
Original Alan research from 2026. 449 employees and 298 HR professionals, representative of the Canadian workforce at a 95% confidence level.
78% want it. 36% have it.
Pay transparency is important or essential to 78% of Canadian employees, yet only 36% say the criteria behind their pay are written down and shared.
The silence is the problem
61% have heard little or nothing about how pay is decided at their company, and 24% say it has never been explained at all.
HR fears conflict more than employees do
41% of Canadian HR leaders named internal conflict as their top fear, more than in any country we surveyed. Only 18% of employees thought transparency would mostly cause conflict.
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