Compensation

Compensation provides tools to assist with hiring, requesting new positions, and reviewing existing positions:

Northwestern job families
Compensation has created Job Family Matrices to facilitate your decision on the level of Administrative Support, Research Administrator,  Research Study or Research Technologist position that you need.  These matrices were created to define standard levels of responsibility, align with market data, and internal equity.

Additional resources:

• Instructions for preparing a job description (doc)
• Guidelines for writing a competency-based job description (pdf)
• Action Words (pdf)