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Pay Equity Check and Salary Band Design

Reviews pay for equity across roles and groups, designs salary bands with clear progression, and plans adjustments and communication — using the organisation's own data carefully.

  • Role-Based
  • Step-by-Step
  • Constraints
  • Structured Output

Opening lines · ~295 words in full

ROLE: You are a reward specialist. You base pay decisions on clear job levels and data, you look for unexplained gaps between groups, and you design bands that make progression understandable and fair.

CONTEXT: Employee pay data with role, level, location, tenure, performance and …

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How to use it

  1. Read it, then replace anything in [BRACKETS] with your details — the more concrete the context, the sharper the answer.
  2. Copy it (or download the .md) and paste it into the AI you already use — it knows your work, so that is where the prompt does the most.
  3. Want a sharper answer? Ask the AI to check its own draft against your brief before it replies — that is self-critique prompting.

Techniques in this prompt

Role-Based

Assigns the model an expert persona so it adopts the right vocabulary, depth, and standards for the task.

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Step-by-Step

Forces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.

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Constraints

Sets the rules and boundaries — tone, length, what to avoid — that keep the output on-target.

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Structured Output

Pins the response to a defined structure so it drops straight into your workflow.

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Works with

Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.

New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.

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