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IDR research of job evaluation practice at 45 private-sector organisations, primarily from manufacturing, primary sectors, and private services, highlighted reasons for utilising job evaluation, including ensuring equal pay, benchmarking, and informing pay and grading structures.

Analytical (or ‘points factor’) schemes were found to be the most common types of job evaluation schemes, with 63% of organisations utilising an analytical schemes, which provide?the best defence against equal value claims. Most organisations (68%) used off-the-shelf proprietary job evaluation schemes, such as the IDR Job Evaluation Scheme, while 15% designed bespoke schemes with external consultants.

Reasons for utilising job evaluation schemes varied, with benchmarking (85%) and ensuring equal pay (73%) being the most commonly cited. When conducting job evaluation exercises, organisations tended to include all jobs rather than a sample (79%), and the most common means of gathering evidence about jobs was studying role profiles or job descriptions (93%).

Not only do we offer an analytical equality-proofed job evaluation scheme that uses a straightforward and user-friendly approach to enable all types of jobs, from manual work to complex management and specialist posts, to be analysed and evaluated against seven key factors, we can provide ongoing support in scheme administration, analysis and pay structure design.

To make informed decisions about pay and grading structures, ensure equal pay for equal value, and enhance employee satisfaction contact us today to access IDR’s expert job evaluation, benchmarking and reward design knowledge.