Asking for a salary grading review - local government

[ForensicFlossy]

I work for a local council at a middle management level in a small team. We are definitely underpaid for what responsibilities we have and would like to ask for a grading review. As it's council, we can't just ask for a pay rise, we have to have our job re-evaluated. We are currently putting a case together including looking at Jobs on the same grade as us and pointing out the differences. Does anyone have any advice of what would be helpful or things to avoid in a situation like this? Thanks

You need to look at job advertisements for the same role that you are doing in the same type of organisation as the one you work for and benchmark your salary against the salaries being advertised. Make sure that the jobs you are looking at are in the same general area of the country where your organisation is based. If you can evidence that you are being paid less than the majority of roles being advertised then it will be hard for them justify your current level of pay.

Use your union, they will have done this many times. Find the scoring criteria and use that to see where points can be added . Obviously you will need buy in from above, if they don't have the funding to pay for this then it will be a struggle.

This. Use the scoring criteria to see the points awarded for your current job description and those in your remit. From memory it needs to be at least two areas where you are undertaking a higher level of responsibility to be considered for a regrade. It's a pretty big scale though eg you might score 0 if you have no financial responsibility, 1 if you are responsible for up to £50k and to score a 2 you need to be responsible for a budget of £1M. If your budget is "only" £250k you are still not going to score Level 2.

Job creep is rife in LAs. They cut posts and other people are just expected to cover as the work still needs to be done.

What additional responsibilities are you undertaking over and above what's in your job description? That will be what matters.

Thanks for the replies, that's really helpful. What you have all advised is the kind of route that we are taking so it gives me hope! Thanks