Planning Basic Wages at Ukrainian Enterprises: Analysis of Approaches

The goal of the article is the study and justification of the most acceptable approaches to planning the basic wage at Ukrainian enterprises. The article justifies difficulties of formation of groups by payment for labour on the basis of the traditional procedure of labour tariffication. It formulates "grade" and "grading" definitions. It specifies specific features of planning basic wage with the use of the grading procedure. It studies approaches to planning the basic wage used at Ukrainian enterprises. It establishes that the most widely used is the traditional approach to development of tariff conditions of payment for labour. It justifies that planning the basic wage with the use of the grading procedure allows increase fairness in payment for labour, increase individualisation of wages due to the fact that the process of identification of size of remuneration takes into account value of the position (work), level of the worker's professionally significant competences and individual results of labour. Further studies should be directed at development of scientific and methodical recommendations on planning the basic wage with the use of analytical methods of assessing positions and work.