4. Background – Hampshire Constabulary
• Covers policing across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Co e s ac oss Hampshi e
• Approx. 4,000 police officers …
• … 3,000 Police Staff …
• … including 140 IT staff …
• … covering Project Mgmt., Operations, Infrastructure Mgmt.,
Development etc. …
• … using Wintel, Unix, C#, ITIL, PRINCE2 etc etc
Wintel Unix C# ITIL etc. etc.
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5. Background – IT Professional Development
• Issues identified in 2004 :
I id tifi d i
• Inability to recruit
• Desire to implement staff development
• Poor retention of IT staff
• 100 roles planned for migration to BCS Development Framework
(ISM / CDF)
(Migration to SFIAplus / Career Developer in progress)
• Staff assigned a Level (Grade) directly linked to ISM / SFIA
• Roles to be benchmarked against market salaries
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• CELRE Salary Survey selected 5
6. Background – CELRE Salary Survey
celre Survey - # of employees by industry
Public Sector 2,224
Manufacturing 5 435
5,435
Non-manufacturing
3,765
Retail / Distribution
2,831
Hi-Tech 2,465
Finance 15,995
IT Services 18,196
Consultancy 3,403
• Total sample size (Nov 2007) = 54,314 employees 6
7. Background – CELRE Salary Survey
• A biannual p ocess …
biann al process
Apr / Oct
celre
May / Nov
Jun / Dec
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8. Background – CELRE Salary Survey
• Engagement with CELRE consultancy …
ith cons ltanc
• … to establish Level mappings …
• … and skill mappings (i.e. not ‘job’ based)
• ISM skills mappings derived in 2004 …
• … SFIA skills mappings now predefined …
• … SFIA Levels mappings now defined
• BUT …
• … not a ‘shrink wrapped solution
shrink wrapped’
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10. How the HC mechanism works
• Benchmarked
Benchma ked against November survey …
No embe s e 35,000
Level 5
• … changes applied annually at 1st January
30,000
30 000
30,000
• A number of constraints apply :
Level 4
• Levels meet at a min / max from a mid-point
mid- 25,000
25,000
• Salaries can rise and fall as the market dictates Level 3
22,500
,
• Based on a total package 20,000
20,000
• Movement applied to all Levels within a d f
l d ll l h defined job role …2
d b Level
l
15,000
• … not across the board (Department) 15,000
Level 1
10
10,000
14. What happened – Salary Protection
• The cash part of the CELRE • The HC package has only
package constitutes : salary :
BONUS
} SALARY
‘AT RISK’
SALARY
SALARY
• The Protected Pay mechanism provides the red line below which
salaries are not allowed to fall
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16. What happened
• Review
Re ie took six months …
si
• … required five years trend data from CELRE …
• … and took a further six months to apply
• Some salaries still aren’t right
• One feels too high …
• … two feel too low …
• … but the Survey says …… < insert “Family Fortunes” noise>
• The survey can only give answers to the questions you ask
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18. Conclusions
• CELRE Survey maps directly to SFIA skills
• Business requirements critical, but …
q ,
• … must be informed requirements
• Don’t undertake salary benchmarking without consultancy
…
• … but don’t take it at face value …
• … and don’t underestimate the level of knowledge required
to sustain it
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