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Chapter
8
Designing Pay Levels, Mix
and Pay Structures
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Learning Objectives
After studying Chapter 8, students should be able to:
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Set Policy
Define
Market
Conduct
Survey
Draw
Policy
Lines
Merge
Internal &
External
Pressures
Competitive
Pay Levels,
Mix and
Structures
Some
Some Major
Major Decisions
Decisions in
in Pay
Pay Level
Level Determination
Determination
!
! Determine
Determine pay
pay level
level policy
policy
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! Define
Define purpose
purpose of
of survey
survey
!
! Define
Define relevant
relevant labor
labor market
market
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! Design
Design and
and conduct
conduct survey
survey
!
! Interpret
Interpret and
and apply
apply results
results
!
! Design
Design grades
grades and
and ranges
ranges or
or bands
bands
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Salary Survey
! A survey is the systematic process of collecting
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and services.
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Most likely
Only if in
Only if in
short supply short
supply or
or critical
critical
International:
Across several
countries
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&
Engineers
Managerial
Professional
Likely
Most likely
Most likely
Most likely
Most likely
Only for
critical skills
or those in
very short
supply
Only for
critical skills
or those in
very short
supply
Sometimes
Executive
Most likely
Most likely
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Low - High
Approach
Global Approach
Market Basket
Approach
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Benchmark
Conversion
Approach
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Total Cash
(base + bonus)
Total
Compensation
(base + bonus +
stock options +
benefits)
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averages or means
weighted means
medians
! Measures of distribution, or dispersion
standard deviation
percentiles and quartiles
range spread
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Scatterplot
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survey
monthly
salary
($000)
PAY
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120
160
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curve to it.
! Can eyeball data, use midpoints, or other
mathematical approaches.
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survey
monthly
salary
($000)
PAY
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120
160
200
240
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survey
monthly
salary
($000)
PAY
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Line of Best Fit :
using market-survey data
(updated and aged to reflect
pay policy)
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80
120
160
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External Pressures:
a.
b.
Internal Pressures:
a.
b.
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Constructing Ranges:
Develop Grades (1 of 2)
! A grade is a horizontal grouping of different
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Constructing Ranges:
Develop Grades (2 of 2)
! The objective is for all the jobs that are similar
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pay structure.
! Each pay grade will have associated with it a pay
range consisting of a midpoint and a specified
minimum and maximum.
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policy
! The point where the pay policy line crosses each
grade becomes the midpoint of the pay range for
that grade
! Midpoints are the control point of the range
! The midpoint represents base pay for a seasoned
employee
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III
II
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Broadbanding
! Use of job clusters or tiers of positions into bands
! Purpose is to manage career growth and
administer pay
! An alternative to traditional salary grade
structures
! Collapses the number of salary ranges within a
traditional salary structure into a few broad bands
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Bands Support:
! Emphasis on flexibility
within guidelines
! Global organizations
! Cross-functional experience
and lateral progression
! Reference market rates,
shadow ranges
! Controls in budget, few in
system
! Give managers freedom to
manage pay
! 100 400 percent spreads
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Broadbanding: Example (1 of 2)
!A large technology company reduced the
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Broadbanding: Example (2 of 2)
! Within these levels, managers hired and calibrated
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Broadbanding:
How many bands to create? (1 of 2)
! Determine the number of distinct levels of employee
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Broadbanding:
How many bands to create (2 of 2)
!For example:
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Basic
Proficient
Mastery
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Pay Compression
! Results when wages for those jobs filled from
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Summary
! Most organizations survey other employers pay
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Summary (continued)
! The policy on competitive position is translated into
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Review Questions
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