Pay, Grading & Job Evaluation
Bringing clarity, fairness and confidence to pay decisions
Many organisations struggle with pay and grading. Employees question fairness, managers feel uncomfortable justifying decisions, and leaders worry about inconsistency or equal pay risk. Without a clear framework, pay structures quickly become complicated, subjective, and difficult to defend.
Cheviot HR helps you replace uncertainty with structure. Through job evaluation, fair grading frameworks and salary benchmarking, we create pay systems that are transparent, defensible, and built to support both compliance and business growth.
Solving Pay & Grading Challenges
Job evaluation provides a structured, evidence-based way to assess the relative value of roles across your organisation. It focuses on the demands of the job — responsibility, skills, problem-solving and decision-making — so pay is based on objective criteria, not opinion or negotiation.
The result is a grading and pay framework that managers can explain with confidence, employees can trust, and your business can defend if challenged.
The Cheviot Scheme – Job Evaluation Made Simple
A clear, fair and practical approach
he Cheviot Scheme is our own tried-and-tested job evaluation framework. It removes unnecessary jargon and complexity, giving you a transparent and consistent method for comparing roles and setting pay.
Using the Cheviot Scheme, you can:
- Build fair and logical grading structures
- Benchmark roles accurately
- Create clear career pathways
- Reduce equal pay risk
- Bring consistency to pay decisions across teams and sites
Tailored to your organisation, the scheme balances legal compliance with real-world practicality. Leaders gain confidence in their decisions, and employees gain reassurance that roles are valued fairly and consistently.
With Cheviot HR guiding the process, you get a system that works in practice — not just on paper.
Salary Benchmarking
Know where you stand. Pay with confidence.
Salary benchmarking helps you understand how your pay compares to the market, so you can remain competitive without overspending. It supports recruitment, improves retention, and provides robust evidence to justify pay decisions.
Our benchmarking is tailored to your sector, region and business size — ensuring insights are relevant, realistic and commercially useful.
With Cheviot HR, you gain:
- Clear market comparisons
- Data-led pay recommendations
- Support balancing affordability with competitiveness
- Confidence when responding to employee questions or challenges
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