# Reward Management: Pay Structures and Benefits

> Design competitive, fair and affordable pay structures, incentives and benefits.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Human Resources & Talent
- **Duration:** 5 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/human-resources/reward-management
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=reward-management

## Overview

This course covers job evaluation, salary surveys, pay structures, incentive schemes and benefits design, with attention to pay equity, affordability and regulatory requirements. Participants work through a pay structure design exercise.

## Who should attend

- Reward and remuneration specialists
- HR managers
- Finance staff involved in payroll costs
- Remuneration committee members

## Learning outcomes

- Evaluate jobs consistently
- Use salary survey data
- Design pay grades and structures
- Design incentive and benefit schemes
- Ensure pay equity and affordability

## Course outline

### Day 1: Reward strategy

- Total rewards
- Reward philosophy
- Market positioning
- Governance

### Day 2: Job evaluation

- Evaluation methods
- Job descriptions
- Grading
- Evaluation committees

### Day 3: Pay structures

- Salary surveys
- Pay scales and bands
- Progression
- Exercise: building a structure

### Day 4: Incentives and benefits

- Short-term incentives
- Long-term incentives
- Benefits design
- Tax considerations

### Day 5: Equity and control

- Pay equity analysis
- Affordability
- Communicating reward
- Reward plan