| Scaling | Meaning |
| 1 | Indicates that two factors are equally important |
| 3 | Indicates that two factors are slightly more important than another factor |
| 5 | Indicates that two factors are significantly more important than another factor |
| 7 | Indicates that two factors are more important than one factor than another |
| 9 | It means that two factors are extreme important than the other |
| 2, 4, 6, 8 | The median of the above two adjacent judgments |
| Reciprocal | Factor Ci and Cj compare the judgment of aij, aji = 1/aij. |