PROFESSIONAL CLASSIFICATION AND SALARY SYSTEM
Professional classification in B:SM is currently divided into the following professional groups: from 0 to 8. Of these nine levels, those in the 0 to 4 range (first and last included) correspond to staff excluded from the Collective Labour Agreement while those in the 5 to 8 range (first and last included) correspond to staff subject to the employment terms and conditions established under the Collective Labour Agreement.
Assignment to the various organisational levels and professional groups is based on a job evaluation system that follows the HAY Job Evaluation methodology. A monitoring study is conducted every five years to ensure the internal and external fairness of the evaluation system and the salary system linked to this scale, both for the staff excluded from the agreement and the staff linked to it.
It is especially important for internal coherence and fairness to be achieved between the two salary systems, given that the smooth progression of the salary model based on the classification levels can break down in the boundary space between the highest levels of the Collective Labour Agreement and the lowest levels of the salary system for those excluded from the Agreement.
STAFF EXCLUDED FROM THE COLLECTIVE LABOUR AGREEMENT (GROUPS 0 TO 4)
Level 0 covers the General Manager (senior executive) and the Deputy General Managers (for economics and finance and for operations).
Level 1 includes the managers who are divisional where they manage one or more business or corporate units if they manage functional or corporate-services areas.
Level 2 covers the managers who, answerable to a level 0 or 1 executive, have a markedly specialist profile and with an area of responsibility closely connected to the two higher levels.
Levels 3 and 4 cover staff excluded from the Agreement who are highly specialised, generally answerable to the three higher levels and hold a hierarchical position with respect to levels 5 and 6 officers and expert staff included in the Collective Labour Agreement.
The salary system for staff excluded from the Agreement consists in the following pay types:
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Fixed or basic salary: gross pay received by job holders during the period of one calendar year, without integrating additional job responsibility pay or goal-linked variables. It corresponds to the professional level and group the staff member belongs to.
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Additional job responsibility pay: a performance-linked pay category relating to certain job responsibilities. Its purpose is to reward certain features of a job through assigning an evaluation level or group. Generally speaking, it represents 15% of the average basic salary of the professional group and is conceived as a fixed sum, which is different for each of the professional groups.
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Variable pay: this is the total of the gross pay earned in the previous financial year, payable during the current year and corresponding to the attainment of certain (corporate or individual) goals during the calendar year. It is a percentage of the basic salary plus the additional job responsibility pay. The variable pay percentage is set every year at an amount representing a maximum of 100% for attaining certain goals, and corresponds to a percentage of the basic salary plus the additional job responsibility pay which generally corresponds to each staff member’s professional group and differs depending on the professional group they belong to:
Group 0 15%
Groups 1 and 2 10%
Groups 3 and 4 7%
Total remuneration: is the total of the previous remuneration items.
This pay system (basic salary plus additional job responsibility pay) can be progressively applied over time for levels 3 and 4, and may involve amending pre-existing contractual terms and conditions.
The variables chart can also be applied progressively for the purposes of obtaining these percentages without an immediate effect on the theoretical maximum achievable amount of the variable, and is an amount that is absorbable and recoverable.
Regarding staff excluded from the Agreement, no pay is earned or received in connection with presence in the workplace, length of time served, seniority or overtime pay established under the contract.
Even though annual salary increments for staff excluded from the Agreement are applied on an individual basis, this is referenced in the public or private area of services companies and operations (external comparison market according to the HAY scale) and takes professional career aspects into account.
STAFF SUBJECT TO THE COLLECTIVE LABOUR AGREEMENT (GROUPS 5 TO 8)
Middle management and medium-level experts belong to Level 5.
Supervisors and specialists belong to Level 6.
Levels 7 and 8 cover the operatives of the various business units, administrative staff and maintenance staff.
The pay system is based on several pay types. These are grouped together according to the nature of the income under three main types:
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Fixed pay: basic salary, additional job responsibility pay, bonuses and extra pay are included in this category. Also included in this category is the pay for seniority given in two-year and five-year periods or in two-year and four-year periods depending on the collective labour agreement applied.
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Other non-fixed pay types or bonuses: this is pay for one-off services, such as overtime, or pay that is dependent on the occurrence of a certain condition to justify it and determines its amount, such as drops in revenue or aspects relating to the work schedule, among other things.
Also included in this group are pay types linked to presence in the workplace or lack of absenteeism.
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Variable pay: as with staff excluded from the Collective Labour Agreement, this is the total of the gross pay earned in the previous financial year, payable during the current year and corresponding to the attainment of certain (Company or individual) goals during the calendar year. Variable pay is a percentage of the fixed pay. Percentages vary between 1% and 4% of the fixed pay (without seniority), depending on the professional group and job.
Total remuneration: is the total of the previous remuneration items.