{"id":3748,"date":"2026-04-28T11:16:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hr\/?page_id=3748"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:44:37","slug":"compass-comp-faqs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hr\/compensation\/compass-comp-faqs\/","title":{"rendered":"Compass Comp FAQs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>How will this project help with career advancement?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Career advancement is a critical component of what the project is working to accomplish. We want staff to understand the many career opportunities across URI. Having a consistent and transparent structure will illustrate career pathways and advancement opportunities so staff can map out long-term opportunities for growth and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is market-based pay?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Market-based pay is a compensation method that leverages market salaries, or the going rates of pay for jobs in the market, to inform pay decisions. This is achieved by market pricing, which is a technique that requires the collection and interpretation of market data external to the organization. Jobs are \u201cmatched\u201d to comparable roles in salary surveys that are published by third-party vendors to identify market prevalent rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Will this initiative result in changes to salary, pay grade or title?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staff will<strong>&nbsp;not see a reduction in their pay, or a general or automatic increase in pay,&nbsp;<\/strong>as a result of this initiative. One of the outcomes of this initiative is to create a structure that will allow for fair and transparent compensation decisions, including pay ranges that better represent our pay practices and market benchmarks. Another outcome will be new compensation levels and pay grades, as well as titling guidelines to create consistencies across URI. This is critical to support transparency and foster greater understanding about career pathways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Will my job description change as a result of this initiative?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roles and responsibilities will not be reviewed or modified as a part of this initiative. Therefore, individual job descriptions will not change as a result of this initiative. Job families have been developed to help departments quickly write job descriptions for common roles. As a reminder, managers and employees should review job descriptions on an annual basis and update as appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have an FAQ for us? <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/WEPUAYWQuH\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/WEPUAYWQuH\">Please send it our way! <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How will this project help with career advancement? Career advancement is a critical component of what the project is working to accomplish. We want staff to understand the many career opportunities across URI. Having a consistent and transparent structure will illustrate career pathways and advancement opportunities so staff can map out long-term opportunities for growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4749,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3786,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3748\/revisions\/3786"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}