The Skills & Certificates settings page is where you build the library of skills and certificates that can be assigned to employees and positions. Navigate there via Settings → Skills & Certificates. The page has two tabs: Skills Management and Certificates.

Skills Management

Competency Scale

The competency scale defines the proficiency levels used when rating skills across your organization. The default scale has 5 levels:

Click Customize to rename levels or adjust descriptions. Individual skill categories and skills can override the default scale if needed.

Building Your Skills Library

You have three options for populating the skills library:

• Load Default Skills — loads Evenpay's built-in skill taxonomy as a starting point. Recommended for most organizations.
• New Category — creates a category to organize skills into logical groups (e.g. "Programming Languages", "Leadership", "Data Analysis")
• New Skill — adds an individual skill to the library

When creating a skill, you provide a name, category, and optional description. There is also a Consider in Pay Factors toggle — when enabled, that skill's proficiency level is included in pay gap analysis and salary recommendations. Enable this for skills that genuinely influence pay in your organization.

Certificates

The Certificates tab manages certificate templates — the types of professional certifications that can be tracked for employees.

Organize certificates into categories first (e.g. "Cloud", "Project Management", "Finance"), then create certificate templates within each category. To create a template, click New Certificate and fill in:

Once templates are created, they can be assigned to employees and used as a pay factor in your pay philosophy if certifications are a genuine driver of compensation in your organization.

Updated on: 08/04/2026