Overview
When creating evaluation criteria for a job evaluation on Talexio, you can define specific factors and sub-factors to measure a position. To reflect the relative importance of each item, the system allows you to assign custom weights. This ensures that scores are calculated dynamically based on the overall maximum point threshold.
What is Weighting?
Weighting is the process of assigning a percentage value to different evaluation criteria to reflect their relative importance. Not every factor or sub-factor carries the same structural weight. Weighting ensures that the calculated scores of a job evaluation accurately match your organisational priorities.
When you assign weight to your criteria, you ensure that the total value of all factors adds up to exactly 100%.
Why use Weighting?
- Clarifies Priorities: It allows organisational stakeholders to see exactly which core competencies and factors hold the highest value for a given position.
- Fairer Evaluations: It distributes values dynamically based on complexity, preventing lower-stakes variables from skewing the final point calculation.
- Strategic Alignment: Leadership can customise score parameters and factors to match specific business units or grading frameworks.
Job Evaluation Weighting Calculation
Upon completing the criteria layout, maximum points are calculated down through the hierarchy based on the Maximum score points setting. The calculation works as follows:
- Maximum score points represents the absolute maximum value a position can achieve. This defaults to a maximum total of 1000, but can be customised.
- Factor Weighting represents the percentage of maximum score points allocated to a single factor. Weights at this level must sum to exactly 100%.
- Sub-factor Weighting represents the percentage of the parent factor's points allocated to that sub-factor. Sub-factor weights under a single parent must also sum to exactly 100%.
Adding Job Evaluation Weighting
Adding weighting is completed within the process of creating your criteria framework under the Job evaluation tool. Once you have defined the factors and sub-factors of your criteria, you will be able to add different weights to each item in order of importance.
By default, the system automatically includes a sub-factor when you create a new factor. Every factor must contain at least one sub-factor.
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Go to the Job evaluation wizard and navigate to Job Evaluation > Step 1: Criteria > + Create Criteria.
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Select your branch from the Business unit field and input your overall ceiling cap in the Maximum score points field (e.g., 1000).
- + ADD FACTOR, provide a title in the Factor name field, and input its percentage in the Weight field.
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Add a Sub-factor name, allocate its individual Weight percentage, and choose a preferred Rating type.
- Click SAVE DRAFT to protect your progress or SAVE & PUBLISH to finalise the framework.
Understanding the Math Behind the Weighting
To accurately capture priority distributions, the system splits total available points across your factors and sub-factors based on the percentages you assign.
Calculation
(Maximum Score Points × Factor Weight %) × Sub-factor Weight % = Sub-factor Point Allocation
Real-World Example
Consider an evaluation framework configured with a Maximum score points pool of 1000:
- Factor Level Distribution: If you divide your framework into three top-level elements—Factor A (50%), Factor B (35%), and Factor C (15%)—the system calculates their point ceilings as 500 points, 350 points, and 150 points respectively.
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Sub-factor Level Distribution: If you look inside Factor A (valued at 500 points) and set its nested Sub-factor 1 to a weight of 25%, the system calculates the exact cap using the equation:
(1000 × 0.50) × 0.25 = 125 points. The final maximum obtainable value for Sub-factor 1 is safely logged as 125 points.