Salary Determination
What you need to know
Offering Sandians competitive compensation is an important part of our overall employment proposition.
Sandia determines and manages non-represented employees’ compensation, through the salary determination process. This considers your:
- Highest relevant educational degree
- Specific discipline (for example, chemical engineering or accounting)
- Relevant experience and skills
- Unique job market factors or requirements
About the Salary Determination Process
Sandia’s salary determination process ensures we apply consistent guidelines for determining base salary.
In addition, we use this process to make adjustments if needed over time, for example, when your job changes and as your career progresses.
Geographic Differentials
A geographic pay differential is additional compensation paid to an employee to account for variations in labor costs across certain regions of the country. Learn more about geographic differentials here.
Market Bands
Every position at Sandia is assigned to a market band.
The market bands establish a range (minimum, midpoint, and maximum) for each position’s base salary.
Job Descriptions and Titles
When you join Sandia, you are assigned a job code, level, title, and job description.
Your level and your job responsibilities and title, and additional factors, including your qualifications, experience, and education, determine where you fall within a position’s salary range.
Job descriptions provide a summary of a job’s primary duties and responsibilities, and the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the position.
Sandia’s job families cover both non-represented and represented positions.
View the full Sandia job repository here.
Salary Determinations
Your salary may change under several additional circumstances; for example, if you are:
- Promoted
- Change jobs
- Take a acting management assignment
- Become a manager
- Relocate to a new site (for example, move from NM to CA)
Get more details through HR Solutions.
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Hiring a new employee?
Hiring managers can refer to manager resources to learn more about the steps and process for recruiting new employees – from posting a job, to determining competitive compensation, to onboarding a new hire.