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Status of Government Wide Position Classification, Compensation, and Benefits Review |
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January 29, 2010
In September 2009, the Department of Administration (DOA) held a briefing for the media on the status of the Job Evaluation and Compensation project being conducted jointly with the Hay Group. During the briefing, an overview was given of the project background, objectives, and steps that had already been completed. In addition, indication was given that it was the aim of the project to have preliminary analysis and recommendations completed by December 2009.
Accordingly, the Hay Group presented a draft report to the DOA project team. The draft report included the results of the job evaluation process, analysis of GovGuam’s current Unified and Executive Pay Plans, and analysis of the external competitiveness of these pay plans and benefits plans.
As this was a draft report containing additional steps that need to be undertaken by the Hay Group and the DOA project teams, release of any documents pertaining to the draft report can not yet be released. However, we can advise that the analysis of the current Unified Pay Structure as compared to the comparator markets indicates it to be lagging significantly. The comparator market includes U.S mainland pay levels and pay levels of other employers on Guam. The market position is not unexpected given that the Unified pay structure has not been increased since 1991.
The additional steps, analysis and firming up of recommendations as set out in the draft report are currently being worked on by the Hay Group and DOA project teams.
“We expect the next project report to be ready by the end of February and that the Hay Group Project director will be on island to present and discuss the report with the DOA project teams (at this time, the draft report will still not be released). These discussions will also include consideration of the fiscal impact of the recommendations, and the path towards approval by the Governor, and adoption and implementation by the Legislature of the recommendations,” said Lourdes M. Perez, Director of the Department of Administration.
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