A job structure you can defend to anyone
Built with you in 90 days. Then it's yours to run.
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Trusted where defensibility is non-negotiable


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Stop making pay decisions with no structure behind them
Everything you need to build a defensible pay structure
Five factors in, a robust grade out
Right now, roles get sized by precedent, gut feel, and whoever negotiated hardest at offer stage. A proper methodology means the next grading decision takes minutes, not multiple meetings.
Work through five plainly defined factors and PAYgrade calculates the grade
The system's intelligent filtering keeps scoring consistent as you go, so two evaluators assessing the same role land in the same place
Every grade traces back to the factor scores behind it, so when someone asks 'why is this role a Level 6?', the answer is already written


Grading that reflects how your organisation actually works
"Why does she earn more than me?" "What gets me to the next level?" "On what basis was this graded?" With a defensible structure, these stop being Friday-ruining questions and start being two-minute answers.
Job families, roles, and reporting lines mapped together in one place
Every role is graded in the context of the structure around it, not as a line in a spreadsheet
When a decision is challenged, the evidence behind it is one click away
Catch structural problems before they're pay problems
Every pay problem starts as a structure problem. See them early, fix them quickly and quietly.
A complete matrix view of your grades across the organisation
Automatic gap and span-of-control detection built in
All issues flagged before they surface as appeals, equal pay risk, or awkward questions in the boardroom.

We've graded organisations like yours
Twenty years of evaluations across housing, care, construction and beyond.
Housing & Non-Profit
Businesses where every grading decision may have to answer to a regulator as well as a board. Delivered for L&Q, Housing 21 and the Order of St John Care Trust.
Construction
Site-based, project-driven organisations where the same job title means different things on different sites. Trusted by contractors including Wates.
Healthcare & Carehomes
Clinical and non-clinical roles graded in one structure, without flattening the difference. Delivered for providers including Ramsay Health Care.
Don't see your sector?
These are just some highlights. We also work with energy, utilities, retail, and manufacturing. The methodology works wherever fair pay matters.
You're in good company
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From spreadsheet to structure in five steps
From your first data upload to a fully graded organisation, with as much guidance as you need along the way.
One licence price. Every job. Every reviewer
No caps on how many roles you evaluate. Grade your whole organisation for one price.
Need help running your job evaluation project?
Implementation and consulting support is scoped separately, based on the size and complexity of your project.
FAQs
We've worked with small, 100 employee associations as well as enterprise businesses with 1000s of employees. PAYgrade works no matter your size or industry.
Yes. If you have job evaluation expertise in house, we set up your account and you're off. Most organisations start with a guided build where we help you create the structure, train you in the methodology, and anchor your senior roles (typically in around 90 days). Either way, the end state is the same: it's yours to run.
There are levels to it.
Scoring an individual role is relatively straightforward. If you know the job, the five plainly defined factors walk you through the grading process, and the engine does the calculating. No JE background needed and teams are typically scoring confidently within weeks of training.
Building a consistent structure itself, the grade boundaries, the anchor roles, and hierarchy that every score lands in, takes more skill and experience. And it's the part that determines whether the whole thing holds up later.
Once that structure is in place, the expertise is effectively built in. Your team scores new roles, handles restructures and keeps everything current without needing a reward specialist on staff or a consultant on call.
You score a role against five defined factors; the engine weights and places it in your structure. No interpretation step, no judgement call at the end. Every grade traces back to the evidence, which is what makes it defensible when challenged.
You do. Your structure, your scores, your evidence trail, exportable at any time. If you leave, it leaves with you.
Still have questions?
Want to know more about anything? Please get in touch and we'll be happy to answer your questions.



