In Compensation Administration > Compensation Cycle Administration, after all of the worksheets in the cycle are submitted and approved, you can begin the process of posting the compensation cycle. This process involves locking and approving the cycle, and then posting the pay components to HR or Payroll.
Before You Begin: You should review Prerequisites for Posting before beginning the posting process.
Role feature access: Compensation Administration > Compensation Cycle Administration > Approve Cycles, Lock Cycles, and Post Cycles
Important: Equity grants are exported and processed for employees through equity administration systems, for example, E*TRADE. You can’t post compensation cycles with equity pay components. However, if merit and bonus pay components are configured for the same compensation cycle, you can post the compensation cycle.
The following sections describe the posting process in more detail:
After bonus pay components are posted, payroll administrators can review the details in the Compensation Data tab of Payroll > Data Entry. See Process Bonuses in Payroll.
Note: Compensation administrators with delegated access can approve, reject, and submit worksheets for managers to complete the compensation cycle.
Prerequisites for Posting
To successfully post pay components in Compensation Administration > Compensation Cycle Administration, you must first do the following configurations.
Access and configuration:
- Role authorization access: (Can Create, Can Read, Can Update, and Can Delete)
- Employee Status Information
- Employee Pay Information
- Employee Work Assignment - Primary Records (if promotions are enabled).
- Employee Badge Information - If the Set Employee Badge to Employee Number for New Hire client property is enabled in the Employee section of the Properties tab in System Admin > Client Properties.
- Client properties: General > Change Reason is Mandatory (Select the checkbox). Ensure that you enter a reason code for all existing employment status records affected by the compensation cycle.
If the cycle includes promotions, ensure that access to the Require Job Rate Value role feature isn’t enabled under Application Container > People > Employee Profile > Work > Work Assignments in the Features tab of System Admin > Roles. If this feature is enabled for your user role, Dayforce shows an error message when you try to post the pay component with promotions. This is because, although Compensation updates the base salary and base rate for promoted employees, it doesn’t update the pay rates for the associated work assignments as required by this role featured.