How Grades, Grade Rates, and Sets Work with Legislative Data Groups

You assign grades to sets, and grade rates to legislative data groups from the Workforce Structures > Manage Grade Rates page.

If you have grades that are common across multiple business units, you can:

Assign them to the set that's associated with business units.
Set up grade rates that are specific to each legislative data group.

A figure that shows five grades that are assigned to one set which are shared by the US, UK, and Australia legislative data groups. Each legislative data group has the same set but different rates. — The following figure illustrates how you can use sets to share grades across multiple business units and change the grade rates for each legislative data group.

Grades and Sets

Sets enable you to share grades that are common across business units in your enterprise. You can assign grades to either a specific set or to the common set to each grade. If you assign the grade to the common set, then the grade is available for use in all business units.

Grade Rates and Legislative Data Groups

Grade rate values are associated with each component of compensation for your workers. While grades may be common across different areas of your enterprise, grade rates vary among the countries in which you employ people.

For example, if your enterprise has engineer jobs in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, you can set up grades for a set that's shared between the countries, but set up different grade rates for each country in the applicable currency.