1. 1 JOB EVALUATION Compensable factors

2. 2 Groups Used Universal Factors FES – Factor Evaluation System developed by the U.S. government in the mid-1970s

3. 3 TABLE 8-6 FACTOR AND SUBFACTOR DEFINITIONS Skill (Bass) Sub factors described through the use of the following terms : 1. Intelligence or mental requirements 2. Knowledge required 3. Motor or manual skill 4. Learning time

4. 4 Skill (NMTA-AAIM) 1.Education. The basic trades training of knowledge or “scholastic contact” essential as background at training preliminary to learning the job duties. The job knowledge or background may have been acquired either by formal education or by training on jobs of lesser degree or by any combination of these approaches. 2.Experience. The time it would take a “normal” person working under “normal” supervision to learn to apply the assigned education effectively in the performance of the job, assuming that each element was supplied about as rapidly as the individual could absorb it. 3.Initiative and ingenuity. The independent action, the use of judgment, the making of decisions, and the amount of resourcefulness and planning the job requires as determined by complexity of duties performed.

5. 5 Know-How (Hay-Purves) 1. Practical procedures, specialized knowledge, and scientific. Practical specialized, technical, professional, or administrative knowledge. 2. Managerial. Human skills in evaluating, motivating, organizing, or developing people, singly or in groups. 3. Human relations. Degree of human relations.

6. 6 Knowledge Required the Position (Factor Evaluation System) Nature and extent of information or facts which the workers must understand to do acceptable work (steps, procedures, practices, rules, policies, theories, principles, and concepts) and the nature and the extent of the skills needed to apply these types of knowledge. To be used as a basis for selecting a level under this factor, a given type of knowledge. To be used as a basis for selecting level under this factor, a given type of knowledge must be required and applied.