A city of 400 employees now carries 140 unique titles, including "Specialist II-B." Leadership wants to buy a market survey and price every title as it sits. What should the compensation strategy do first?
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Short Explanation
Pricing 140 mystery titles is like tagging every box in the attic without deciding what the rooms are. Classification is the floor plan; market data is the furniture. Build the architecture first or the survey just baptizes the mess.
Full Explanation
Compensation strategy depends on classification: jobs must be grouped by work, level, and family before market pricing is meaningful. Ballooned titles hide like-work inequity and make survey matches unreliable. Rebuilding architecture first, then pricing the resulting classes, is the SPHR 4.2 sequence. Pricing every snowflake title or flattening everything into one band either preserves chaos or destroys differentiation.