Case Study One

A client in the mechanical & electrical engineering industry has used our pay modelling services for the last few years to improve the quality of their decision-making in their annual pay review. They wanted us to particularly focus on their key service delivery roles.

We initially divided jobs into career families and used these to help validate a 3rd party grading structure; we were able to recommend some adjustments to this.  We then used a mix of our own specialist club survey data and some 3rd party data to develop market guidelines for each role. Using these ranges we modelled the existing employees together with performance data to show where people were relatively under or over-paid against the market.

Finally we were able to create a matrix using performance and position in pay range to allow informed decisions in the pay review whilst ensuring adherence to the available budget.

Case Study Two

Our pay modelling capabilities, combined with our experience in HR management enable us to undertake equal pay audits for our customers. Examples include:

• A detailed gender / working time study for a large insurance company covering over 1,700 individuals employed in 30 locations across the UK;
• A gender audit for a major pharmaceutical business covering 1,900 individuals employed in over 60 roles. The results included an analysis by company divisions and sub-divisions;
• A regional development agency audit covering a wide range of areas including gender, working time, ethnicity and demographics including service length, performance and age.