Across
- 1. Pay plan where pay rates are equitable both internally (based on each job’s relative value) and externally (in other words when compared with what other employers are paying).
- 5. A job that is used to anchor the employer's pay scale and around which other jobs are arranged in order of relative worth.
- 6. (or job grading) – A method for categorizing jobs into groups.
- 8. A series of steps or levels within a pay grade, usually based upon years of service.
- 11. The simplest method of job evaluation that involves ranking each job relative to all other jobs, usually based on overall difficulty.
- 12. A fundamental, compensable element of a job, such as skills, effort, responsibility, and working conditions.
- 14. A survey aimed at determining prevailing wage rates. A good salary survey provides specific wage rates for specific jobs.
- 15. – Equals an employee’s pay rate divided by the pay range midpoint for his or her pay grade.
- 16. Pay in the form of wages, salaries, incentives, commissions, and bonuses.
- 17. All forms of pay or rewards going to employees and arising from their employment.
- 18. A job classification system like the class system, although grades often contain dissimilar jobs, such as secretaries, mechanics, and firefighters.
Down
- 2. A 1963 amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act designed to require equal pay for women doing the same work as men.
- 3. Grouping jobs based on a set of rules for each group or class, such as amount of independent judgment, skill, physical effort, and so forth, required. Classes usually contain similar jobs.
- 4. The job evaluation method in which a number of compensable factors are identified and then the degree to which each of these factors is present on the job is determined.
- 7. Pay in the form of financial benefits, such as insurance.
- 9. A systematic comparison done in order to determine the worth of one job relative to another.
- 10. Shows the relationship between the value of the job and the average wage paid for this job.
- 13. A pay grade is comprised of jobs of approximately equal difficulty.
