Workers at the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) have accepted a new pay offer.
The deal will see the pay of hundreds of staff increase by between 5.9% and 8.9% depending on their salary.
Workers called off planned strike action earlier this month to consider the SQA's revised offer.
The Unite union described the accepted deal as a "significant improvement from the starting position in the negotiations".
The agreed 5.9% hike for SQA staff comes amid ongoing pay disputes with Scotland's teachers and health workers.
If the planned strikes had gone ahead, they would have been the first in the history of the SQA and up to 55,000 exam appeals could have been affected.
