Liberty Enterprises is a government contractor of specialized engineering products. Listed below are 10 benchmark jobs and their point values derived from an internal job evaluation of positions at Liberty Enterprises using the point method. You are going to construct a “wage line” based on the job point values and market rates for the 10 jobs presented below.
Job Job Points
Administrative Assistant 160
Technical Writer 370
Accountant 410
Information System Manager 930
Treasurer 850
Engineering Manager 900
Mechanical Engineer 460
Human Resource Manager 525
Financial Analyst 430
Purchasing Agent 350
(a) Use O*NET to identify the annual median market wage for each of the jobs. This will be the Y-axis of your wage line graph.
(b) Using a total point range of 0-1600, establish 8 wage grades of 200 points each. Label the wage grades W1, W2, etc., up to W8. This will be the X-axis of your wage line graph.