What are the various statistical tools used while arriving at the compensation of any organisation?
From India, Ahmadabad
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Hi! The compensation structure in an organization is being designed and developed through the Job Evaluation (JE) program. This program teaches you how to create a job hierarchy within your organization. The hierarchy is called Job Grades (JG). The number of JGs that you can create depends on the type of JE System that you are using. If you use the classical method, then you can create more JGs than when you use Broad Banding.

Each Job Grade carries a minimum, midpoint, and maximum rate. The rates are determined by using market data, called Compensation Survey. This survey shows you the prevailing market rate per position in the industry where your company belongs. You use the data to benchmark your company's position and decide which figure to use, i.e., the low percentile, the median rate, the high percentile, or the mean.

Each JG has a spread. The size of the spread is dependent on the amount that you would like to put in each JG.

Statistical Tool? Yes. The computation of the spread, the range, the midpoint, the median, the mean, the low and high percentiles, etc., all need statistical tools.

Best wishes.

Regards, Ed Llarena, Jr.

Managing Partner

Emilla Consulting

From Philippines, Parañaque
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Hi Ed,

That was quite interesting. I would like to learn more about this topic, specifically about compensation benchmarking and the statistical tools used to arrive at a particular number (salary) for a specific position in relation to HR. I would be grateful if you could suggest any information (books/journals) where I could learn more on this topic. I have some knowledge about percentiles in statistics, but I would like to understand how to connect them with the compensation aspect in the HR domain to determine a specific value for a particular position. Your response would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Arvind

From Italy, Rome
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