Import Eligible Salaries

Before You Begin: This functionality is available only if one or more of the bonus pay components in your cycle are configured to use imported bonus eligible salaries. See the “Bonus Eligible Salary” description under Bonus Pay Component Fields. Also, the importing functionality is available only when the cycle is unpublished.

You import eligible salary information for employees in the Budgets tab of Compensation Setup > Compensation Cycles. After importing, these salary values are used to calculate the cycle budgets.

If compensation plans are configured for the compensation cycle, Dayforce allows you to import the eligible salaries of only eligible employees in the plan payout period.

The imported file must include salary information for each employee in the cycle, and the names must match the names shown in the Organization tab exactly. If one or more employees are missing, or if their names are entered incorrectly, the import fails. If you leave the Eligible Salary column blank in the file, Dayforce saves that employee’s salary as zero.

Important: When you upload a new file in the Budgets tab, it overwrites any data that was previously uploaded.

To import eligible salary information:

1. Go to Compensation Setup > Compensation Cycles and click the Budgets tab.
2. In the Import > Eligible Salaries drop-down list, click Create Import Template to open a template for the import in Microsoft Excel.
3. Enter the required information and save the list as a CSV file on your computer.
4. In the Import > Eligible Salaries drop-down list, click Import File. Dayforce opens the Import File wizard.
5. Enter a name for the import set in the field provided, and then click Next.
6. Click Browse for file and select the file, or drag and drop the file into the file window.
7. Click Upload to import the eligible salaries and refresh the data in the Budgets tab.

You can review the files that have been imported by selecting Import History in the Import > Eligible Salaries drop-down list. Dayforce opens a dialog box showing a list of all of the files that have been imported for the compensation cycle.

Note: After you publish the cycle, the Import > Eligible Salaries drop-down list is replaced with the Eligible Salaries Import History button.