Pay Survey Practices - Part II Measuring Pay Data Distributions: Normal - Bell shaped curve - rarely appropriate Non-Normal - pay data is unevenly distributed; more typical of pay data collected from surveys Measures of Central Tendency used to report Pay Median - the middle value of an ordered sequence of data Mean - sum of data divided by number of observations Unweighted - each company is an observation Weighted - each employee is an observation MGMT 4030 - Managing Employee Reward Systems
Pay Survey Practices - Part II Measures of Variation used to Report Pay Range of Pay Data Minumum, Maximum, Midpoint Quartertile - 1st , 2nd (above midpoint); 3rd, 4th (below ) Standard Deviation - distance of data from mean in a normal distribution. Typical Market positions Lead the market Lag the Market Match the Market MGMT 4030 - Managing Employee Reward Systems
Pay Practices - Part II (Gomez-Mejia & Balkin, 1992) Recommended Pay Survey Practices Relevance Match on Job Descriptions (not Titles) Consistent Use of Same Statistical Measures Keep Pay Data Current Monitor Effectiveness Using HR Benchmarks MGMT 4030 - Managing Employee Reward Systems