This year’s pay increase is heavily weighted in favour of the lower paid staff.weightedweight‧ed /ˈweɪtɪd/ adjective 
The voting system is weighted against the smaller parties.weighted in favour of somebody/something This year’s pay increase is heavily weighted in favour of the lower paid staff.weighted towards The course is weighted towards language skills.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- How serious, how weighted, how freighted it sounds.
- In my case the burdens are weighted saddlebags that hang from my shoulder.
- It is stag-toe weighted and double-balanced.
- Its output depends on a weighted sum of its inputs.
- Some experts claim that a heel-and-toe weighted club is more sympathetic to a mishit.
- The weighted door slams shut and she consumes her prey in safety.
- We assume to start with that the weighted patterns provide a rough guide to playing the game.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY This year’s pay increase is heavily weighted in favour of the lower paid staff.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
This year’s pay increase is heavily weighted in favour of the lower paid staff.· Then weighted averages of the section indices are calculated to find eleven group indices and the all-items index.· Essentially the series is a weighted average of the share of total assets that different financial institutions were permitted to invest overseas.· The weighted average of shares in issue during 1985 was 18,027,432. 11.
· The hon. Gentleman particularly asked about weighted capitation.
WORD FAMILYadjectiveoverweight ≠ underweightweightedweightyweightlessnounweightweightsweightingverbweighoutweighweight
giving an advantage or disadvantage to one particular group or activityweighted against The voting system is weighted against the smaller parties.weighted in favour of somebody/something This year’s pay increase is heavily weighted in favour of the lower paid staff.weighted towards The course is weighted towards language skills.