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Competency-based pay

Recognising skills to determine pay awards.

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What is CBP?

A competency-based pay (CBP) review is a way of recognising a person’s skills in a role to determine a pay award.

How can Comaea help with this? Since a person will already be carrying out an assessment of their skills in comaea, we minimise further interventions.

  • We know what role they are assessing against
  • We know the Job Level Requirements (JLR) for that role
  • We know if the person is working below, working at or working above the JLR

We simply need to apply a calculation to the approved scores to determine a pay award. We do this by adding a separate pay review plan to a person’s profile, keeping it separate from their skills assessment.

Four-stage competency based pay process: employee self-assessment, line manager assessment, head of profession approval, then competency based pay calculation. Each stage maps to a Comaea role - employee, cross-assessor, approver, and pay review plan.

Competency groups

A list of competencies grouped by competency group, showing essential specialist skills included in the pay calculation and desirable skills excluded from it

Competency scoring

An assessment grid showing employee, manager, and moderated ratings against each skill, alongside a level guide describing awareness, working, practitioner, expert, and above-expert proficiency

Features

A list of a person's proficiency reviews from 2021 to 2023, each showing its date, status, and calculated proficiency level
Pay review plans are added to the profile and the approver can calculate and close the plan.
An exported spreadsheet of proficiency review results, listing organisational unit, plan type, approval status, dates, and total rating for each employee
Data can be exported and given to HR/Payroll for pay award adjustments.