Eligibility

Note: Dayforce only considers the primary work assignment of employees when determining eligibility for a Compensation cycle.

In the Eligibility tab of Compensation Setup > Compensation Cycles, you can define which employees are included in the compensation cycle using different eligibility qualifiers. You can create multiple qualifier sets and define criteria for each of the qualifier sets to qualify employees when generating the organization for a compensation cycle. When you configure multiple eligibility qualifier sets for a compensation cycle, employees are qualified when they satisfy all of the criteria in any of the sets. See How Eligibility Is Determined for Compensation Cycles.

Important: You can’t add, edit, copy, or delete eligibility qualifiers after a compensation cycle is published.

To configure an eligibility qualifier set:

1. Go to Compensation Setup > Compensation Cycles.
2. Click the Eligibility tab. The Default qualifier set is shown with the Employment Statuses criterion set to Active by default.
3. Do one of the following:
   • To update the Default qualifier set, continue to step 4.
   • To add a qualifier set, click Add in the tab's toolstrip. A new blank set is added in the left-side panel and the configuration fields are shown to the right.
4. Configure the qualifier set details using the available fields:
   • Name: Enter a name for the eligibility qualifier set. The entered name is shown in the left-side panel.
   • Description: (Optional) Enter a description for the eligibility qualifier set.
5. In the Criteria section, do the following to add criteria to the qualifier set:
   1. Click Add in the Criteria section.
   2. Select a criterion in the Criteria drop-down list. The selected criterion is no longer available in the list for selection. This ensures that each criterion is added only once in a set.
   3. Select an operator in the Operator drop-down list. An operator is shown for the selected criterion, by default. You can change the operator.
   4. Select one or more values for the selected criterion in the Values drop-down list. See Eligibility Criteria and Operators.
6. Click Save.

Note: You can copy qualifier sets within a compensation cycle, or from one cycle to another when creating a cycle.

Eligible Employees by Pay Type

If your organization includes both hourly and salaried employees, you can use the Pay Types criteria to define which types of employees will be included in the compensation cycle.

Note the following when including hourly employees in your compensation cycle:

• If the cycle includes one or more hourly employees whose pay rates are determined by a scheduled background job (for example, Base Rate Recalc), manager allocations associated with the compensation cycle might be overridden by the scheduled background job.
• Compensation doesn’t currently support posting bonus pay components to Payroll for employees with the Hourly pay type. To handle these bonuses, you can export the data from Compensation and then manually import it into Payroll after making any necessary adjustments.
• Payroll doesn’t currently support retroactive salary changes for employees with the Hourly pay type, so any retro changes from Compensation to Payroll are handled for future earnings only. If you’re using WFM, you must run retro changes for hourly employees from that interface.