Compensation Study Project Plan
The Staff Compensation Study will include several phases of work.
Phase One – Job Documentation
Phase One of this project has three areas of focus:
-complete job code audit
-collect job surveys
-collect job descriptions
Job Code Audit
Status: Ongoing
The Office of Human Resources will perform a comprehensive audit of all active job codes.
- Update and sync human resources information systems to ensure consistency and integrity of job data.
- Audit job code minimum qualification, compensation, benefit, retirement, and compliance attributes.
- Eliminate job codes that have never been used.
- Deactivate job codes not used in two (2) or more years.
- Review job codes not used in 1-2 years to determine if job code is needed.
- Identify and track duplicated job titles used across campus.
- Identify and track variable job titles used for the same position across campus.
Progress
September 2023 = ~1700+ unique, active job codes
May 2025 = ~820 active job codes
Identification and review of duplicated and variable job codes and review of underlying attributes continues.
Staff Job Surveys
Status: Ongoing
Phase one of the compensation study will include surveying UTD staff to capture core job functions for each job code across campus. Each month the HR compensation team will identify specific job codes to be surveyed for the month and will send every employee in those job codes two separate emails.
- This internal communication from staffcompstudy@utdallas.edu will let staff know when the custom survey link will be sent to them. Be sure to monitor your junk/spam folder in the event you do not receive the survey link by the date noted in this first email communication.
- This second communication will include information detailing why the university is conducting the survey, what to expect, and more information about the staff compensation study project objectives. This second email will contain a custom link to the core job functions survey specific to your job title.
Progress as of 5/16/2025
Staff Job Descriptions
The job description platform opened to campus in May 2025.
It is imperative that managers wait until they are contacted by the HR compensation team for training and additional information before they create job descriptions in the platform for their employees.
Job Description Platform HOW TO GUIDES: