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Overview
The EU Pay Transparency Directive champions đȘ âequal pay for equal work or work of equal value.â (Directive (EU) 2023/970) In practice, this means you're required to ensure that roles contributing similar value to your organisation are categorised and treated consistently, both in evaluation and in pay outcomes.
Occupation categories are perfect to help you group jobs into score-based bands once they have been evaluated. They play a key role in building fair and transparent pay structures across your organisation. In other words: categories will help you see where jobs of equal value are being paid similar and the same, and where they aren't.
For example, if a Head Chef and a Front Desk Manager at your hotel business receive similar job evaluation scores, they will most likely fall within the same category. This means that their jobs are of similar value, so both of their total remuneration should be similar as well.
đĄ Pro tip: The EU directive doesnât dictate how your score bands should be structured, whether you prefer tighter brackets or broader segments is entirely up to you. Just keep these two rules in mind:
Ranges must not overlap.
The full scoring scale should be covered in a way that supports accurate and fair benchmarking.
Categorise with JET!
Indigoâs Job Evaluation Tool (JET) gives you everything you need to create occupation categories quickly and with confidence; from a setup process that takes just a few clicks to fully automated sorting of occupations into the correct categories.
Yep, you read that right! Once your categories are created and occupations have been evaluated:
Each occupation is automatically assigned to the correct category based on its score.
You can view the occupationâcategory relationship from both the Occupation Evaluation and Occupation Categories tabs.
Pay inconsistencies between similarly valued roles become far easier to identify and address.
Adding Categories by Score Interval
In JET, you can create all occupation categories at once by specifying a score interval. The default interval is 50, which means:
Category 01: All jobs with evaluation scores between 0â50.
Category 02: Scores between 51â100.
Category 03: Scores between 101â150.
âŠand so on, up to the maximum score of 1000.
This setup allows you to quickly create structured pay bands while keeping all occupations organised based on their evaluation scores.
To create your categories:
Navigate to Indigo > HR > Job Evaluation Tool > Occupation Categories.
Click the blue Add Categories by Score Interval button at the top-left corner of the page.
In the side screen that opens, select your desired score interval from the dropdown menu:
You can choose any available interval from 5 to 500. For example, selecting 500 will create just two categories: 0â500 and 501â1000. Smaller intervals give you more granularity.
Click the blue Add Categories by Interval button at the bottom-right to create the categories immediately.
Understanding the Occupation Categories Grid
Once categories are created, the grid in the Occupation Categories tab will populate automatically with data, depending on how far you are in the job evaluation tool's process.
The columns included are:
Category Name: Automatically numbered (e.g., Category 1, Category 2).
Occupations: Displays all evaluated occupations from the Occupation Evaluation tab that fall within the categoryâs score range.
Description: Use this to summarise the purpose of the category and the types of jobs it includes.
Score From / Score To: Defines the numerical range of the category based on your selected interval.
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