a$)$ Use the high$-$low method to establish the entry level and top$-$level compensation amounts in your skills grid and for pricing skills blocks. To do this, you will need to determine the entry$-$level pay for the most junior job in your PKS job family and $$maximum$$ pay for the most senior level job in your family. The difference in rates will be the amount you have available to distribute among the skills blocks.

b$)$ Find salary data $-$ ideally you will be able to find reliable data from similar$-$sized organizations in the same industry in the same region used for recruiting purposes for the job by the organization. You can use data from public sources like union agreements that are listed on a provincial Labour Relations website, Statistics Canada data, as well as whatever you can find from PayScale or any other sources of Canadian data.

c$)$ Identify the comparator jobs and explain the matching process you used to determine market matches $($hint: job title isn$$t a reliable or valid way to match$).$

d$)$ Describe the process that you used to develop your skills$/$pay grid.

e$)$ Discuss how employees will progress through the grid and how they will be assessed to determine if they should be awarded the next pay level.

f$)$ Include your PKS wage grid with pricing in your appendix.