EN
Proper division of wages in a plant is of fundamental importance for ensuring successful motivation through wages in conditions of the economic reform and autonomy of enterprises. What is meant here is especially observance of the principle of division according to work being oposlte to wage egalitarianism. For an employee a wage is of a gratifying and motivating value when it is just and right according to them. The article shows the essence and conceptions of a just wage. In order to convince themselves what wages received by them are like employees make appropriate comparisons in their immediate occupational environment and such comparisons determine their stance towards performed work and obtained pay. The basic information for a proper differentiation of wages is provided by analytical valuation of work. The article describes differentiation of wages and work on worker- and non-worker-jobs in an industrial enterprise against the back-ground of results of work valuation by means of "UMEWAP-87" method. Moreover, there are shown changes in the field of employees' grading and wages caused by the new system of employees' grading.