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Job Evaluation

Total Reward Projects offers a comprehensive job evaluation service. Job evaluation is widely regarded as the most reliable basis upon which to develop any organisation’s pay structure. It is a tried and tested method of measuring the key elements of any job content, from the Chief Executive to the most junior level, so that all jobs within the organisation can be placed at the right level within the structure.

Total Reward Projects has its own job evaluation methodology, JESS, which is a factor-based, analytical system of the kind recommended by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. It is easy to use and has 7 factors which measure the key elements of a job such as knowledge and skills, judgement and impact, which are analysed separately to produce an overall job ‘weight’. The Company’s consultants are familiar with and do use many other job evaluation methodologies including JEGS, JESP, NJC, Gauge and Paypoints I & II.

The job evaluation process typically requires the job holder to complete a straightforward questionnaire and then to be interviewed for about an hour about their specific role and responsibility. The interview can be conducted by a Total Reward Projects consultant, or by an in-house analyst trained by Total Reward Projects to use the JESS scheme. The typical outcome of a job evaluation exercise is an agreed rank order of jobs by weight that can then be used to determine the number of levels (grades or pay bands) within a new pay structure, and the level of each individual job type.