Section 310.45  Comparison of Pay Grades or Salary Ranges Assigned to Classifications

a)         What Classifications to Compare When an Employee Moves – The movement of an employee subject to the Personnel Code to a vacant position (subject to the Personnel Code) is between two positions.  The employee moves from the former position to the targeted position.  The targeted position may be the former position allocated to a different classification title (80 Ill. Adm. Code 320.80) or may be the former position assigned substantial additional responsibilities in the same broad-band title (Section 310.495(c)).  The former and targeted positions have the same or different classification titles.  The former position is in the former classification and the targeted title is in the targeted classification.  The former and targeted classifications are used in the comparison when an employee moves.

b)         Definitions of Employee Movements – When the former and targeted classification titles are the same, the employee movement is an interim assignment (80 Ill. Adm. Code 302.150(j)), a transfer (80 Ill. Adm. Code 302.400), geographical transfer (80 Ill. Adm. Code 302.430) or where in the broad-band classification title the targeted position has substantial additional responsibilities compared to the former position (Section 310.495(c)).  When the former and targeted classification titles are different, the employee movement is an interim assignment (80 Ill. Adm. Code 302.150(j)), a transfer (80 Ill. Adm. Code 302.400), geographical transfer (80 Ill. Adm. Code 302.430), demotion (80 Ill. Adm. Code 302.470), voluntary reduction (80 Ill. Adm. Code 302.500), promotion (Sections 310.50 and 310.500), based on the position being allocated to another class (80 Ill. Adm. Code 301.20 and 301.41) or based on the positions in a class being reclassified (Sections 310.50 and 310.500).

c)         What to Compare in Each Classification – Whether comparing former and targeted classifications, the pay grades or salary ranges assigned to the former and targeted classifications, or the maximum permissible salary or rate assigned to the former and targeted classifications, use the highest of the maximum base salaries in the regular pension formula pay grades or salary ranges assigned to the positions established inside the geographical limits of the State of Illinois for each classification.  (Out-of-state rates in Section 310.495 are never used in the comparison.)

d)         What to Compare in Each Classification When Conditions in Subsection (c) Do Not Exist – If no regular pay formula pay grade or salary range exists for the classification, then identify the highest of the maximum base salaries in the alternative pension formula pay grades or salary ranges assigned to the positions established inside the geographical limits of the State of Illinois for the classification. 

e)         The Comparison Determines the Type of Employee Movement and Pay – Comparing the highest of the maximum base salaries set forth in subsection (c) or subsection (d) for each classification establishes whether the former classification is higher than, lower than or the same as the targeted classification.  This information determines (or assists in determining) which type of employee movement in subsection (b) is occurring.  From that determination, the pay treatment is set in following Sections of the Pay Plan.

(Source:  Amended at 32 Ill. Reg. 9881, effective July 1, 2008)