Classification and Compensation
The Classification and Compensation Branches are responsible for administering the State’s classification and compensation systems and providing personnel management advisory assistance to departmental personnel offices on a variety of classification and compensation issues. To accomplish this, we
- establish compensation and classification policies, procedures and guidelines;
- conduct classification and compensation research and studies;
- establish new civil service classes of work and determine pay grade levels;
- perform job audits and ensure positions are properly classified;
- participate in collective bargaining wage negotiations;
- develop salary adjustment recommendations for excluded managerial employees;
- administer the excluded managerial employee performance evaluation program; and
- review and approve exemptions from civil service.
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) and Answers
Compensation Plans for State of Hawai‘i Employees
Class Specifications and Minimum Qualifications for State of Hawai‘i