• Is pay based on organizational, group, or individual performance?
• Is pay based on objective measures such as piece-rate or subjective measures such as supervisory ratings?
• What proportion of pay is variable?
• How big are performance-based pay differences between good and bad employees?
• Are pay criteria clearly specified to employees in advance?
• Is there a policy of pay secrecy?
• In group-level performance-based pay plans, is pay distributed to group members equitably or equally?
• Is performance-based pay supplemented with other rewards?