What Is the Purpose of the Wage Curve

question 58

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of the wage curve?

• A)to choose benchmark jobs within each pay grade
• B)to equate jobs of approximately equal difficulty or importance as established by job evaluation
• C)to assign pay rates to pay grades
• D)to show the relationship between the value of the job as determined by one of the job evaluation methods and the current average pay rates for your grades
• E)to cluster jobs into logical groupings

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