What Is the Purpose of the Wage Curve

question 33

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of the wage curve?

• A) to show the relationship between the value of the job and the current average pay rates
• B) to equate jobs of similar difficulty or importance as established by job evaluation
• C) to cluster jobs into logical groupings for pay purposes
• D) to choose benchmark jobs within each pay grade

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