Pay transparency and pay equity are priorities for organizations around the world, making career frameworks that integrate job architecture and job leveling essential.
Pay transparency regulations put pressure on employers to improve how they manage rewards. Objective reasons for pay differences among similar employee categories are a must.
Yet a challenge that organizations often face is the manual nature of creating and maintaining grades and leveling structures. These processes can be time consuming and rely on evaluators to consistently interpret and apply leveling criteria. It’s simply not an efficient use of time and HR expertise.
We took on the challenge of modernizing these processes by developing automated job leveling powered by artificial intelligence. As part of our job leveling software, Global Grading System (GGS), we apply the same tried and tested global grading methodology, but faster. GGS with AI can tackle bulk uploads of roles to provide a leveling score for review in seconds.
Start fresh with job leveling by using machine learning and generative AI to build baseline job evaluations that help you size jobs appropriately based on scope, complexity, skills, effort and responsibilities.
WTW’s Global Grading System
With more than 30 years of success, GGS is a market-leading approach to job leveling. Enabled by our ongoing commitment to refining and improving our approach, GGS provides the tools to assess both internal job equity and external market alignment.
Through a rigorous and defensible process, GGS:
- Provides a structured, objective and globally consistent leveling framework that's easy to explain
- Recognizes multiple career paths to support compensation and talent management programs
- Uses factors that are universally relevant and gender neutral
- Finds real differentiation in job size to clarify jobs of equal value with respect to skills, effort and responsibility
- Ensures a consistent and transparent assessment of jobs across lines of business, functions and geographies, all based on scope and complexity
- Aligns with compensation market data to create a strong foundation for compensation decisions that balance both internal and external pay equity
AI-supported automated job leveling
We have a fully integrated automated job leveling (AJL) feature in GGS that uses machine learning and generative AI to suggest baseline evaluations that reflect decades of historical data evaluation and consultative experience.
Automated job leveling with WTW:
- Increases objectivity and consistency of the job-leveling process by reducing human error and bias by providing a baseline evaluation
- Offers AI-generated rationale for suggested employee evaluation scoring to inform the human-in-the-loop review process
- Enables users to understand the AJL results and decide where changes need to be made in the employee evaluation
- Reduces workload, allowing compensation and HR professionals to focus on strategic reviews and calibration decisions
- Significantly increases the number of roles that can be leveled within tight timelines and with limited resources
- Enables extensive use of our industry and market expertise to predict leveling outcomes
- Helps confirm the quality and relevance of job descriptions and job-profile content as a core input for leveling
Why you need to start today
As the nature of work and roles continues to change, setting a strong foundation for your people programs is critical. The right tools will help you with:
- Ensuring market alignment: The GGS leveling approach aligns with WTW’s global compensation surveys, providing the basis for fair, logical and unbiased compensation decisions
- Creating exceptional career experiences: Employees will easily understand the basis of their career and rewards opportunities, making conversations about compensation, learning, development and career opportunities clear and engaging
- Expanding career paths: GGS’s approach describes and values both people managers’ and individual contributors’ careers, making career path options clear and attainable
- Embracing an agile approach: GGS and AJL is customizable to your organization’s industry, business units, locations or functions, applying the right level of precision while balancing communications at all levels and adjusting to organization changes and different business situations
Use the power of our technology, AI, market-leading data and expert advisors to ensure your organization delivers fair and balanced rewards programs that your leaders are proud to discuss. Getting compensation right is hard. We make it easy.
