AboutShirley McAllister, CPP, PHR Expertise I can answer payroll questions, payroll tax questions, 401K questions. No stock option questions please and I have some knowledge of other pensions but am most familiar with the 401K pension.
I can answer U.S.and Canada payroll questions proficiently and have a good general knowledge of UK and South Africa and some knowledge of Australia and New Zealand Payroll procedures.
Please do not ask me homework questions I do not have time to answer them.
Experience 25 years with an international company in the Human Resources, Payroll and Payroll Tax areas.
Organizations SHRM, APA, I.O.M.A.
Publications I.O.M.A. and BNA
Education/Credentials P.H.R., C.P.P., Canadian Payroll Administrator, Successfully passed APA class on UK Payroll Administration.
Boise State University Human Resource Certification
Awards and Honors APA Hotline Citation of Merit for last 8 years.
Question In business do payscales ever overlap? Or should they? Should a person potentially make more an hour than a person one rank above them persay they've been with the company longer than their boss? I personally know my job, and my bosses job better than they know either. I'd like to be paid accordingly, but don't know if it is common for pay scales to overlap, or if there is a way to convince upper management to make a scale that operated like that. Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks.
Answer Generally supervisory and Managerial positions pay higher wages. They pay higher because they have more responsibility. It is not only the job being done, but they are responsible for people under them and also the work that they do. With authority and responsibility comes the higher pay.
What causes a pay scale to raise is to review the job being performed by the employee. Has the employee taken on any new responsibilities? Does the employee have any new duties that require more individual thinking and less manual labor? Has the workload increased a great deal all at once? Has the duties of the job changed enough to be reclassified into another rank or job title?
Sometimes the job scale raises with the cost of living, but it is slow because the cost of living is a slow rise.
Usually (almost always) with a raise in the wage scale there is a change in the job title.
