Grading and Pay Scales

1. Grading and Pay Scales Jane Littlehales

2. Problem • No standard grades or pay scales for ITSS • No standard job description or duties • No central control or administrator to set them

3. Data Mining – Existing Data • ITSS on many scales • Cannot pick out ITSS from, say, all on academic related scales • Staff categories on University payroll do not show part time ITSS

4. Data Mining – Gather Data • ITSSG conducted an information gathering exercise • Collected job adverts from jobs.ac.uk for 6 months • Analysed into job categories • Compared • Oxford vs. other universities • Universities vs. commercial • http://www.ox.ac.uk/it/groups/itssg/minutes/Minutes-01-01-08.html

5. Outcomes • Difficult to compare widely differing job titles, duties etc. • Some groups easier than others • Unix administrators, trainers • Oxford pay ranges are same as those offered in other universities • Pay ranges at all universities lower than commercial

6. Example – Unix Admin • University salaries • Minimum £16.5k to £18.5k • Maximum £30k • Commercial • Minimum of £35k • Maximum???

7. Other Findings • Oxford adverts on jobs.ac.uk • Poorly formatted • Used old, non belted crest • No line breaks! • Identical jobs in Oxford Colleges at different salaries

8. Staff Committee • Decides pay scales for jobs • Alex Reid was a member • Currently no IT representation • IT staff are a small proportion of total

9. Next Steps • Liaise with Paul Jeffreys • Try to find out who is responsible for job adverts • Information gathering

10. Information gathering • Who to approach • Working through which committees • More information needed from people • Trying to recruit • Moving within the University • Coming in from outside • Leaving • Via anonymous web form