After factors and underlying degrees are delineated, a job's worth can be assessed typically, a compensation committee is chosen to assess job worth. The committee includes a cross section of stakeholders (e.g., managers, union officials, hourly workers, and workers from various job families) who are trained in the use of the job evaluation process. They independently evaluate each that is, they determine the degree level for each factor for each job. Committee members usually discuss their evaluations, and debate continues until consensus is reached on the value of each job. At the end of the process, each job has a total point value that reflects its relative worth.
Like other job evaluation plans, the point factor method incorporates the potential subjectivity of the job analyst. Thus, it has the potential for wage discrimination. Bias or subjectivity can enter (1) in the selection of the compensable factors (2) in the assignment of relative weights (degrees) to factors, and (3) in the assignment of degrees the jobs being evaluated. At stake here are equal pay and job comparability. To make sure its point factor evaluation system is free from potential bias and is implemented as objectively as possible, an organization may solicit the input of job incumbents, supervisors, and job evaluation experts, as well as that of human resource professionals.