What is the PAQ?
The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) is a structured job analysis questionnaire that measures job characteristics and rates them to human characteristics, rather than describing the tasks, technologies or duties of jobs.  The PAQ offers a comprehensive description of the type and level of work behaviors required by a job as well as across time, even though tasks, technology gives and duties may change.
 The PAQ is:
       - Reliable
       - Versatile
       - Cost and time effective
       - Backed by thirty year of research
       - Has broad application
       - Legally defensible

PAQ History
PAQ Services, Inc. was established in 1972 to promote and support the use of the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) and its associated products, the Professional and Managerial Questionnaire (PMPQ), and the Occupational Preference Inventory (OPI).

In the years since its establishment, the PAQ and the PMPQ have been used to analyze hundreds of thousands of jobs in more than a thousand organizations. The database of jobs analyzed includes thousands of job titles in both the public and private sector in such industries as:

• Utilities

• Cities

• Counties

• Hospitals

• Educational Institutions

• Manufacturing

• Pharmaceuticals

• Retail Organizations

• Airlines

• Banks

• Electronics

• Research Firms

• Airports

• Chemicals

• Charities