What is Job Evaluation and how does it fit in with the national pay scale?
Job evaluation schemes are used to expose pay anomalies and pave the way for achieving fair pay and grading structures. At a very basic level job evaluation is the process that measures each element of your job and gives it a total score. Job evaluation will then establish a ranking order for jobs and fit them into a non-discriminatory pay and grading structure to ensure staff receive equal pay for work of equal value. The unions and the AoC have agreed a job evaluation scheme specifically designed for the sector called the Further Education Job Evaluation Scheme (FEJE). FEJE has been designed with the explicit purpose of covering the full range of jobs within FE colleges. As part of the modernising pay agreement colleges should introduce the Further Education Job Evaluation scheme to ensure equal pay.
