Legal Requirements
Economic Influences
Pay Rates, Grades, Range
Miscellaneous
100

The goal for this law is to provide equal pay for equal work

What is Equal Employment Opportunities Law

100

A market that includes organizations that offer competing goods and services

What is a Product Market?

100

A graphed line showing the mathematical relationship between job evaluation points and pay rate.

What is Pay Policy Line?

100

The ratio of the average pay to the midpoint of the pay range

What is compa-ratio?

200

This law allows for a lower training pay than minimum pay

What is FLSA/minimum wage?

200

A measure that the federal government tracks trends in the nation’s cost of living with

What is consumer price index?
200

sets of jobs having similar worth or content, grouped together to establish rates of pay.

What is Pay Grades?

200

Explanation of how pay decisions relate to the organization’s objectives.

What is Pay Strategy?

300

This law defines exempt and non-exempt employees

What is FLSA?

300

A procedure in which an organization compares its own practices against those of successful competitors

What is benchmarking?

300

Organizations may pay extra to employees in locations where living expenses are higher or the competition for talent is more intense.

What are Pay Differentials?

300

The characteristics of a job that the organization values and chooses to pay for.

What are Compensable Factors?
400

This act adds a requirement related to communicating one outcome of pay structure: the ratio of CEO pay to the pay of a typical worker.

What is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010?

400

The cost of a household’s typical expenses, such as house payments, groceries, medical care, and gasoline

What is Cost of Living?

400

Reducing the number of levels in the org structure

What is Delayering?

400

The practice of openly communicating information about wages or salary to employees and job candidates

What is Job Transparency?

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