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117 D - Compensation
City of Greensboro Personnel Policy Manuał
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Promotional Salary Increases
Number: D-6
Revision: 6
Effective Date: 06-01-2014
1.0 POLICY
The City of Greensboro provides the opportunity for a promotional salary increase to
employees promoted through a competitive process.
2.0 PURPOSE
To reward employees for successful appointment to a higher value job requiring the
demonstration and application of a higher level of knowledge and skill to provide a means
of maintaining equitable salary relationships with other employees based on differences in
responsibilities and work assignments.
3.0 SCOPE
This policy applies to all benefit-eligible employees.
4.0 DEFINITIONS
4.1 At-will Employment - A doctrine of law that defines an employment relationship, in
which either party can immediately terminate the relationship at any time with or without
any advance warning, and with no subsequent liability, provided there was no express
contract for a definite term governing the employment relationship.
4.2 Benefit-Eligible - Full time and part-time employees who are eligible for coverage and
participation in the City’s benefit programs in addition to legally mandated coverage.
4.3 Promotion - The movement of an employee from a position in a job classification
assigned to one control point to a position assigned to a higher value salary control point
through a competitive process.
4.4 Salary Control Point - The job value the City is willing and able to pay. The salary
control point is based on the market value of jobs and internal value to the organization. The
salary control point is the basis for most salary administration calculations.
4.5 Compa-ratio - The relationship of an employee’s salary to the salary control point of the
position. A compa-ratio is the employee’s salary expressed as a percentage of the salary control
point.
4.6 Salary Range - Each pay grade within each salary structure has a salary range minimum
and salary range maximum, determined through market surveys..