... a specific knowledge or skill serves as the basis for entry (certification or licensure) into such professions as accounting, law, and teaching. Job evaluation Skills Pay Graduates Skill‐based compensation systems (SBCSs) represent an important departure from the job‐based pay systems...

...Edwin Wilde Reports on a job evaluation service provided for a national firm of wholesalers. Discusses how consultants were retained to establish an objective grading structure; devise an appropriate salary scale;introduce a means of rewarding merit; calculate the costs of the change‐over...