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Salary Benchmarking: (New Grading and Pay Structure)
Course Description

Compensation and Benefits analysts and HR Professionals Payroll Manager who want to know about the functionality?

Day 1-REWARD STRATEGY

  • Relationship of HR with business strategy
  • What is meant by a reward strategy?
  • Performance Related Pay
  • Competence Related Pay
  • Skill Based Pay
  • Team Pay
  • Broad banding
  • Salary & Benefit Benchmarking
  • Conducting effective Salary & Benefit Benchmarking exercises for organizations
  • Recognized salary surveys and other data sources, including bespoke surveys.
  • Process of how to carry out effective benchmarking exercises

Day 2-Pay & Reward Review

  • Reviewing how effective an organization’s current pay and reward systems
  • How they compare with the organization’s competitors and the general market. Are they fair?
  • Are they being operated consistently? Are they subjecting the organization to any risks? E.g. Equal Pay Claim? Are they competitive?
  • Advantages and disadvantages of each.

Day 3-Pay Structures / Salary Structures

  • What are Pay Structures or Salary Structures?
  • Their relative internal value, as established by job evaluation
  • External relativities, via market rate surveys
  • Where appropriate, negotiated rates for the job
  • What are the main characteristics of Pay Structures?
  • Indicate rates of pay for different jobs
  • Provide scope for pay progression via performance, competence, contribution, skill or service
  • Contain pay ranges for jobs grouped into grades, individual jobs or job families.
  • Why do organizations need pay structures?
  • Establish a logically-designed framework within which equitable, fair and consistent reward policies can be implemented
  • Determine levels of pay for jobs and people
  • Basis for the effective management of relativities
  • Help monitor and control the implementation of pay practices
  • Communicate the pay opportunities available to employees.

Day 4 Graded structures Broadband – Part 1

  • Job Family Structures
  • JOB EVALUATION SCHEME
    • What is Job Evaluation?
    • Equal Pay for Equal Value – the Legal Position
    • Types of Job Evaluation Schemes
      1. Analytical Schemes
        • Points Rating
        • Factor Comparison
      1. Types of Non-Analytical Schemes
        • Job Ranking
        • Paired Comparisons
        • Internal Benchmarking or Job Matching
        • Job Classification

Day 4-Performance Management-Part 2

  • PERFORMANCE PAY SYSTEM - CONTRIBUTION PAY
  • Choosing a Performance Pay System
  • Principle : Pay Increase or Actual Salary is Reward
  • Principle : Performance Pay or Contribution Pay
  • Principle : Behavioral Competencies Options for competencies
  • PERFORMANCE RATINGS
  • Under performing
  • Achieving most
  • Achieving all
  • Exceeding
  • Outstanding 
  • PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT & RATINGS
  • New - New to the role and at the beginning of their development
  • Developing – Progressing in the role but not yet fully competent
  • Fully Competent – Fully developed and meeting all requirements
  • Advancing – Developed beyond requirements of the role
  • Expert – Demonstrates mastery of the role
  • Objective assessment:
  • Principle: Enforced or non-enforced distribution of ratings
  • Principle: Budget Allocation
  • Principle: Degree of devolvement of pay decisions to Managers
  • Principle: Other factors to include
  • Internal transfer and promotions guidelines
  • Six Month Reviews
  • Mid-Year Reviews
  • Non-consolidated Awards
  • BONUS SCHEME OPTIONS
  • Feature 1 Operating level
  • Feature 2 Factors
  • Productivity and output
  • Quality
  • Safety
  • Cost Management
  • Financial performance/profits
  • Sales
  • Customer Service/satisfaction
  • Attendance
  • HR-Related measures
  • Project Work Targets
  • Team working
  • Individual Performance
  • Feature 3 Distribution of the Bonus Pool
  • Feature 4 Frequency of Payments
  • Feature 5 Hurdles

Day 5-INCENTIVE AND RECOGNITION SCHEMES

  • Why introduce a Recognition Scheme? Something to remember Open to all
  • Day 5-Case Studies
  • Pay & Reward Design
  • Compensation and Benefit         
  • Hay Group PayNet. Overview
  • Survey Methodology and Statistical Definitions
  • Internal Equity
  • Benchmarking Pay / External Competitiveness
  • Cost Impact Analysis

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.

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Course Rounds

5 Days
Code Date Venue Fees Action
HR146-01
2026-05-10
Dubai
USD 5450
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HR146-02
2026-07-19
Casablanca
USD 5950
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HR146-03
2026-11-01
Dubai
USD 5450
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HR146-04
2026-12-21
Amsterdam
USD 6950
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