A study was conducted with personnel managers to examine the relative emphasis placed on job evaluation factors (job grade) and labor market factors (supply and demand of qualified applicants) in determining salary allocation for nine hypothetical job classifications. The results indicated that the job evaluation factors were consistently given more weight than the labor market factor in the salary allocation task. Implications of the findings were discussed within the general context of the problem of defining “market factors” in the public sector.
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