1Domain
Job Architecture
Whether role families and grade ladders are coherent enough to anchor every downstream pay, equity, and planning decision.
2Domain
Market Intelligence
Whether market evidence is read against governed role and grade framing — interpreted, not applied as a raw survey pull.
3Domain
Salary Structure
Whether a salary structure traces back to defensible role evaluation and grade logic — or floats free of it.
4Domain
Internal Equity
Whether pay holds together across cohorts and grade bands well enough to put an equity posture in front of the board.
5Domain
Merit Cycle
Whether a merit, promotion, or adjustment cycle applies governed structure rather than detached spreadsheets.
6Domain
Workforce Planning
Whether a headcount or total-reward commitment is affordable and modeled before it is locked.
7Governance
Decision Room
Whether each workforce decision can be examined, interpreted, and defended under audit and regulator scrutiny.
8Governance
Artifact Generation
Whether a governed decision can be handed to a board, auditor, or reviewer as a reviewable artifact — not a slide.
9Governance
Audit Trail
Whether the organisation can produce the full chain — what was decided, by whom, against what evidence, and when.
10Governance
Institutional Memory
Whether pay and leveling decisions remain examinable and defensible long after the cycle closes.