Compensation Cycle Administration

Compensation Guide

Version
R2025.1.0
Compensation Cycle Administration

Before You Begin: You must be assigned either organization-level or cycle-level access to compensation worksheets. See Compensation Administrator Role Security.

Role feature access: Compensation Administration > Compensation Cycle Administration

Note: Managers who were purged from Dayforce in the Data Management Center feature are identified by a user ID number rather than their name in compensation cycle screens. Replacing their name with an ID number ensures that information about budgets and allocations are preserved, while still purging the manager’s private information to address the data minimization requirements of the European Union's (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Administrators can monitor and take actions for compensation cycles after it’s published from the Compensation Administration > Compensation Cycle Administration feature.

When you open the Compensation Cycle Administration feature, Dayforce shows a summary of all of the current period compensation cycles that you have access to. For more information about viewing the details and worksheets for these compensation cycles, see View Compensation Cycles.

In the Compensation Cycle Administration feature, you can:

Administrators can also assign experience levels and view any associated market data for employees from the worksheets in Compensation Cycle Administration. In this case, the user experience for administrators in the Compensation Cycle Administration feature is the same as that of managers in the Compensation feature. This experience is described in more detail in the following sections:

Note: Unlike for managers in Compensation, compensation administrators don’t need separate role feature access to view market data in the Compensation Cycle Administration feature.