You can help prevent pay discrimination by basing all pay decisions on legitimate, job-related criteria. Here’s how to do that:

• Establish a clear, written compensation strategy that defines pay ranges, job classifications, and criteria for starting pay, raises, and bonuses. These criteria often include performance, skill level, and tenure along with market data for each role.
• Keep job descriptions current and ensure they accurately reflect the skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions of roles so that similarly situated positions can be identified and treated consistently.

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