Even though job evaluations represent the organization's value system far is jobs come on the organization monster you consider market rates in order to compete in recruiting, to adjust its pay policy relative to market rates, and to adjust its pay standardization to market averages. This last purpose is also important for adjusting pay levels to reflect inflation in the general economy. Several Department of Labor indexes might be used to determine increases in cost of living, but they are based on selected purchases and subject to statistical artifacts, such as variations in the importance of the purchases as indicators. Better is to use average market rates for benchmark jobs, because these rates reflect both market adjustment to inflation and occupational organizational supply and demand effects