Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Market-Competitive Pay Systems
Market-Competitive Pay Systems
Base pay
Can be expensive
Professional associations
Industry associations
Consulting firms
Occupational classification
Geography
Market competitors
Used for:
Job evaluations
Compensation surveys
Central tendency
Represents the fact that a set of data center
around a central point
Variation
Represents the amount of spread or
dispersion in a data set
Median (midpoint)
Middle value of sequential numerical data
Pay-level policies
Pay mix policies
Pay-Level Policies
Market lead (75th percentile)
Levels above market pay lines
Best for differentiation strategies
Market match (50th percentile)
Pay according to market pay line
Appropriate with differentiation strategy
Market lag (25th percentile)
Levels below market pay lines
Best for lowest-cost strategies
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