A job board that has to say what it pays.

Plain Wage · Toronto and the GTA

Plain Wage is a job board for the Greater Toronto Area. Every posting on it states its pay, by the hour or by the year, because the software will not save one that does not. That is the whole idea, and everything else here follows from it.

Why the pay is not optional

"Competitive wage" costs the person reading it an interview, a day off work and a bus fare to find out it was not. It costs the employer the same day. A board where the number is on the row lets both sides skip the meeting that was never going to end in a job, and it is the reason what the work pays is a public page here rather than something you have to be signed in to learn.

What we will not do

• This board ranks and screens nobody. Nothing here ranks, scores or filters the people who raise a hand. Every hand goes to the employer as it was written, in the order it arrived. What an employer does next is theirs, and every posting says whether they use AI to screen, assess or select applicants.
• Nobody looking for work is listed on this site. Your name is not a search result. What you write about yourself stays inside the app, where it cannot cost you the job you already have.
• A job seeker never pays us anything. Not to apply, not to be seen, not to be ranked higher. There is no such thing as being ranked higher here.
• Screening questions are yes or no, and checked as they are written. An employer picks from a list or types their own, and a question that Ontario's Human Rights Code puts out of bounds is refused when it is written, instead of being noticed by the person it was asked of.

Before a posting is shown

In the Floor app, a posting from a member of the house — checked at the door, with a lease and a card on file — or from a business we have checked goes up straight away. Every other posting, including every one made on this website, waits until a person at Jilani Place has read it and seen who posted it, and each posting says which of those happened. A business page answers only for one that has been checked, which is why there are fewer of them than there are companies.

If a posting is not what it says, report it — no account needed — and our written policy says what happens next.

How this is paid for

Employers post for free and always will; the board is no use to anybody if it is half empty. A business that wants a posting held at the top of the board can pay to boost it ($29 for 7 days and $79 for 30 days), and the first boost a business ever runs is free. A boost moves a posting. It has never moved a person, and it cannot: there is no ranking of people here to buy.

Why it is not called Jilani Place Jobs

The board is the GTA, not a building. Titled as a coworking company's careers page it would suppress both sides at once: somebody in Scarborough would not think it was for them, and a restaurant in Brampton would not post a vacancy on a landlord's website. So it has its own name and its own address on the web, and the company behind it is named once, at the foot of every page. That line is not modesty. A new board asking for your work history should have to tell you whose it is.

Who that is

Plain Wage is run by Jilani Place, 295 The West Mall, Suite 700, Etobicoke, Ontario. It is a real company at a real address, and somebody there reads the postings. Write to operations@jilaniplace.com.