What is a Job Family?
Job families are groupings of jobs related by common vocations or professions. Jobs in a job family are similar in that they:
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Require similar knowledge, skills and abilities;
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Have a continuum of knowledge, skills and abilities that represent a career path from the lowest to the highest level job;
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Have similar, market-competitive pay characteristics.
How do Job Families Work?
Job families provide direct benefits to both the university and its employees. Organizing jobs into job families provides the opportunity to:
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Identify clearly defined career paths within job families;
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Streamline job content and job title conventions
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Provide market anchor points to achieve greater consistency in the determination of competitive pay levels;
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Simplify and make it easier to compare positions at DePaul to those in external markets;
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Streamline compensation administration, enabling DePaul to devote more resources to maintaining competitive compensation levels.
DePaul Job Family Groups and Grades
