Challenging Pay Grade

[CatWoman12345]

Im a public sector worker in a role that has 2 different pay grades - we’ll call them 10 and 12.
Jobs have same JD and Job Title, the only difference is that the higher one line manages their assistant/s.

However, the higher grades have 1 department to manage, I have several but because I have to assistant/s to line manage I am on the lower grade.

I have queried this and just had the LM line fed to be but I’m thinking of formally challenging this - am I being unreasonable? Does it sound right ?

Do you mean you have no assistants to manage?

Can you not ask for your job to be resized? There is normally a very clear process for this. Two identical JD's shouldn't come out differently in this process.

@Hipnotised No help at all - I manage several smaller departments but the overall size and budgets are larger when combined than the 1 dept that is managed by the person on the higher grade, who has a team of 3 people.
I’ve asked in the past and that’s what HR told me, it’s a higher grade as they have line management responsibility.

@helpfulperson Do you mean the work be shared evenly ? If so, it wouldn’t work for a number of reasons.

Public sector.should have a formal re-grading process that compares job descriptions with actual roles. Are you in a union?

No, your JD updated to reflect what you do and then checked against the grading criteria. It's always a risk as it can also come back lower but it's the only way to resolve these discrepancies.

If you are CS, you can request a JEGS assessment. Be warned though that if they re-grade your role, it is the job that is re-graded, not you - my understanding is that they don't automatically give you the higher grade role. You need to take advice on that as I'm not certain about it, it's just what someone told me (who used to be a JEGS assessor but who hasn't been involved in that work for some years, so it may have changed).