Guide

Getting salary benchmarking right

Why job architecture and job levelling come first

The most important aspect of salary benchmarking is ensuring that you are comparing your jobs against appropriate roles in the market. Using job architecture and job levelling enables organisations to group and organise job roles appropriately for this exercise.

Here we set out the principles of job architecture and job levelling, and provide tips for using this approach to manage job matching for a pay benchmarking exercise.

In this guide, you’ll learn:

• The benefits of using job architecture
• Job architecture in practice
• The benefits of job levelling
• Combining job architecture and job levelling