I think that misses the point. It's quite possible that if you have high salary ranges, you'll get high quality candidates through both versions of the job listing who will be happy with the offered salary.
The issue is the companies out there with low salary ranges. And while it's absolutely true that a high salary isn't going to make an otherwise bad job great, too low a salary will make an otherwise great job terrible.
So I'm not really surprised that your company wouldn't see much value from publishing salary ranges, but I don't think that means they have no value.
Also on a side note:
> Of the top reasons people are happy at work, salary is way down on the list.
That's a weird link to give as evidence of that, since it immediately covers two different surveys that found compensation was the number 1 factor, before going on to discuss a third survey that found it was important, just not #1...
The issue is the companies out there with low salary ranges. And while it's absolutely true that a high salary isn't going to make an otherwise bad job great, too low a salary will make an otherwise great job terrible.
So I'm not really surprised that your company wouldn't see much value from publishing salary ranges, but I don't think that means they have no value.
Also on a side note:
> Of the top reasons people are happy at work, salary is way down on the list.
That's a weird link to give as evidence of that, since it immediately covers two different surveys that found compensation was the number 1 factor, before going on to discuss a third survey that found it was important, just not #1...