Salary and recruitment

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I've been interviewing lots of candidates for a couple of BI roles in my team but finding that candidates' (and not just the really good ones) salary expectations range between just too much to way too much.

While I understand that this is a competitive market but it seems such a risk to paying way above what other similar skilled staff are getting and I would need to revisit current staff wages to reflect. I don't think what they are earning is bad ~50-55k.

So my question is how does one recruit in a market where clearly the market rates have moved up so quickly and maintain a stable team?

 

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So the job is based in the London area, I think 50-55k is pretty reasonable, or I had thought so, for a senior bi developer role with no expected management responsibilities. Looking at the market I don't see many job adverts out there which offers beyond 55k.

The salary difference between our rates and expectations is about 10 to 20k. At that salary we expect management level responsibility and not just delivery.