To determine Kyrene competitiveness, were all Kyrene positions compared with surrounding districts?
No, that is not standard compensation practice. Standard practice in the compensation industry is to select “benchmark” positions from which to draw generalized conclusions. These benchmark positions are a sampling of positions held within the district. This is done for multiple reasons. One, not all districts employ people in every position held within a competing district. Therefore, you need to study positions commonly held in other districts so you have a means of comparison. Second, the work of a position in one district with a specific title is not necessarily identical to the work in another district with the same title. Therefore, you must select positions in which work does not commonly have a great deal of variance. Third, other employers are willing to devote a limited amount of time to responding to market surveys, if any. If the survey becomes too lenghtly, they refuse to respond providing no new information at all. Finally, the length of time it would take to collect and
