Pay Structure Consulting
JER HR Group designs pay structures that connect external market data with internal job relationships. For more than 25 years, our consultants have helped organizations define pay grades or bands, set salary ranges, document placement decisions, and create practical administration guidelines. The result is a decision framework—not a promise of pay equity or legal compliance—and should be coordinated with appropriate legal review.
For nonprofit-specific peer benchmarking, salary structures, and compensation governance, explore JER HR Group’s nonprofit compensation consulting services.
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Our Pay Structure Design Process
We clarify compensation goals, review job architecture and reliable market data, group comparable roles, model grade or band options, and test range relationships and employee-placement scenarios. We then help establish administration rules for hiring, promotion, progression, market adjustments, and periodic review. CompBldr can support ongoing range maintenance, scenario modeling, and decision documentation.
- Breaking Jobs into Job Groups
- Creating Salary Grades or Bands, and salary ranges that reflect a client's targeted position relative to the market. This phase incorporates the results of Job Evaluation and Market Analysis.
- Determining the Optimal Approach to Manage Salary Growth in the context of an organization's culture and hierarchy.
- Establishing a Salary Range per Grade — this range will set the minimum and maximum for each grade. A pay grade chart is created.
- Analyzing Current Incumbent Salaries in relation to ranges to determine appropriate adjustments or positioning within the range based on tenure and performance.
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