Salary Benchmark Refresh Agent

Pay ranges built on poor survey matches lead to offers that are too low to hire or too high to afford. Once a year, or when new survey data arrives, this agent refreshes market pay for every benchmark job. It reads survey files and matches each internal job to survey jobs by duties and level, not just title. It ages the data to a common date, blends sources using set weights and compares the result to current ranges. It then checks match quality. If a job has fewer than two matches or the market rate jumps more than 12% from last year, it re-examines the match and suggests alternatives. The analyst approves matches and the final market rates. Edge case: a survey job description covers both team leads and managers, so the agent marks it as a partial match and lowers its weight.