Essentially, the process measures the wages and salaries of workers in the public service and compares them to a similar job in the private sector. In making that comparison, allowance had to be made for the differences between the two sectors, such as job security and superannuation. The jobs were measured by a job scoring system, which is a common approach to measuring differing jobs. The body that carried out this work from mid-2000 to its report in mid-2002 was an independent body, chaired by a High Court judge, and not controlled by either the employers or the unions. Some have argued that the process was not transparent and that in some way the Government has deliberately hidden the evidence of the benchmarking process. The implication of this is that the benchmarking exercise was simply a "set-up" with the results preordained. This is far from the truth. The benchmarking body was set up as an independent body under a High Court judge and was comprised of individuals of high repute. Are critics saying that these people lent themselves to a rubber stamp exercise?