Salary Study Committee Report

Benchmarks: A sample of bargaining unit positions representing the diversity of positions in the unit.
Benchmark position: A position that can be matched to a job included in external salary surveys and/or is representative of the variety of work performed by UMPSA unit members.
Compensable factors: Characteristics of a position which are used to predict its value in the statistical model.
Essential functions: Fundamental duties that the employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Factor: A group of job duties that measure a more general, common characteristic of many positions.
Factor weight: How much a specific factor contributes to explaining the predicted point value of a position.
Hierarchy: Array of market values (determined from market surveys or from internal University ranking of jobs) for benchmark jobs
Job evaluation: Process of assigning a job to a salary range.
Job family: A group of jobs that are similar in some respect, either in the nature of work performed or the constituent group served.
Point value: A number, determined by the sum of weighted responses to the job evaluation questionnaire. The point value places a job in a salary grade.
WyCOMP: Computer software produced and licensed by The Wyatt Company to write job descriptions and evaluate jobs based on the statistical model developed for a particular organization.

Last changed on Thursday, February 10, 2000