Legislative action in 1999 removed Higher Education from the Central Personnel
System. As a result, the State Board of Higher Education has approved a
change from the previous point-factor classification system to a broadbanding
system, effective July 1, 1999.
Broadbanding is an approach to compensation that focuses on performance
and market, uses a few, wide salary bands to deliver pay, and emphasizes
management pay decisions with expert human resource advice.
This new system is intended to be an improvement for employees and
their supervisors. Its advantages include: it broadens the focus
from job content and scope to include the knowledge, skills and
abilities of the individual doing the work, thus enhancing the pay
for performance system; better maintains a competitive job and compensation
structure to aid in recruitment and retention; and, streamlines
administrative processes.