All three jobs offer both incentive

All three jobs offer both incentive pay and base pay, but the proportions are quite different job a is a clerical job in a credit union with 260 employees. The base pay is determined by job classification schedule. New employees start at the bottom of their classification. Pay increases, which can be granted twice a year, are based on performance evaluations by a supervisor. The supervisor also can recommend a 50-dollar monthly bonus for outstanding performance. The credit union has a form of profit sharing in which 20 percent of the undivided earnings at the end of each quarter are given to the employees according to their relative base-pay rates. The compensation plan is designed so that the average employee receives approximately 85 percent of total compensation in base pay, 5 percent from individual incentives, and 10 percent from profit sharing.Job B is a job in a metal shop that consists of 16 employees who make table and chair frames. Because most workers rotate from job to job throughout the day, maintaining accurate records of individual productivity is impossible. However, daily production records are kept for the group. The base pay of the metal workers is determined by their placement in one of five skill categories: learner, apprentice, intermediate, craftworker, and skilled craftworker.73The company pays a monthly group bonus that is allocated according to skill category Approximately 80 percent of each worker's income is derived from base pay and 20 percent from the group bonus. Individual performance is rewarded only in the sense that it determines the base-pay category to which each worker is assigned.