Market Pricing
Salary Structures
Policies & Processes
Pay Equity
Philosophy & Strategy
100

The percentage premium or discount that can be applied to an individual market data match or an entire composite to better reflect the scope and responsibilities of an organizational job.

What is Adjustment?

100

The classes or levels grouping jobs of similar value.

What are Job Grades?

100

The general wage change affecting most employees?

What is Annual Salary Increase?

100

The subgroup against which all others are compared.

What is Baseline?

100

The additional monetary benefit over base salary. 

What is an Allowance? 

200

The annual rate by which survey data is adjusted for future dates.

What is Aging Factor?

200

The middle value in ordered data (50th percentile).

What is Median?

200

The Difference in pay for a job across locations?

What is Cost of Labor?

200

The employee paid unusually compared to expected pay.

What is an Outlier?

200

The compensation in addition to normal wage.

What is a Bonus?

300

The job matching comparison used to match or price jobs using market data.

What is Benchmarking?

300

The difference between midpoints of adjacent grades.

What is Midpoint Differential?

300

The employees not subject to FLSA overtime and minimum wage. 

What is Exempt?

300

The adjustment to correct inequity. 

What is Pay Remediation?

300

The additional pay for less-desirable shifts.

What is Shift Differential?

400

The total hours an employee works compared to a standard workweek.

What is Full-Time Equivalent (FTE)?

400

The exact middle of a salary range.

What is Range Midpoint?

400

The fair pay relative to other employees. 

What is Internal Equity?

400

The measure of how far pay deviates from modelled pay.

What is Standard Deviation?

400

 The industry, size, and location where organizations compete for talent.

What is Labor Market?

500

The industry, size, location, or other data cuts collected by surveys.

What is Scope?

500

The distance between minimum and maximum salary values.

What is Range Width?

500

The level of compensation information shared with employees.

What is Pay Transparency?

500

The difference between non-baseline and baseline pay.

What is Uncontrolled Pay Gap?

500

The guiding principles governing pay policy.

What is Compensation Philosophy?