To use the functionality in the Compensation module, you must assign one or all of the following features to the appropriate user roles in the Features tab of System Admin > Roles:
Compensation Features
To enable access to the compensation functionality, assign the following features:
- Compensation: Enables the Compensation feature in which managers and senior managers can allocate budget to their employees in a worksheet.
- Gender Pay Equality: Enables the Gender Pay Equality chart in the manager worksheet, which provides a visual representation of average compensation based on gender and job assignment. This chart is only shown if it was selected during the compensation cycle configuration.
- Job Assignment in Salary Range and Performance Rating: Enables the Job Assignment in Salary Range and Performance Rating chart in the manager worksheet, which provides a visual representation of each employee’s salary range in relation to their performance rating. This chart is shown only if it was selected during the compensation cycle configuration.
- Promotions: For compensation cycles configured to allow promotions, enables the Promote button for worksheets in Compensation.
- View Market Data: Enables employee market data in compensation worksheets.
- View Organization in Single Worksheet: Enables access for senior managers to view the single worksheet across the organization.
- Compensation Administration: Enables the Compensation Administration container feature in the Dayforce navigation panel.
- Compensation Cycle Administration: Enables the Compensation Cycle Administration feature in which compensation administrators can monitor and adjust compensation cycles after they’re published. Further, they can use this feature to approve, and post pay components to HR or Payroll after the cycle is completed.
- Note: This feature shows confidential information for employees and should only be assigned to user roles that are authorized to view such information.
- Access to All Cycles: Enables all compensation worksheets for your organization. When enabled, the user role can see worksheets for managers even if they're not assigned access to them in the Management Assignments tab of Compensation Setup > Compensation Cycles.
- Add Employees: Enables the Add button in manager worksheets. This button allows administrators to add employees to a compensation cycle.
- Note: Administrators with cycle-level access can only add employees that they have access to in Dayforce. Administrators with organization-level access (Access to All Cycles) can add any employee. See Compensation Administrator Role Security.
- Approve Cycles: Enables the Approve button in the My Organization tab. This button allows administrators to approve a locked compensation cycle.
- Approve Worksheets: Enables the Approve Worksheet option in the Manager Actions drop-down list in the My Organization tab.
- Delete Employees: Enables the Delete button in manager worksheets. This button allows administrators to delete employees from a compensation cycle.
- Edit Budgets: Enables the ability to edit worksheet budgets in the My Organization tab.
- Lock Cycles: Enables the Lock button in the My Organization tab. This button allows administrators to lock the worksheets in the compensation cycle so that the details can no longer be changed by other users.
- Move Employees: Enables the Move button in manager worksheets. This button allows administrators to move employees from one manager's worksheet to another in a compensation cycle.
- Post Cycles: Enables the Post button in the My Organization tab. This button allows administrators to post the pay components for a compensation cycle.
- Promotions: For compensation cycles configured to allow promotions, enables the Promote button for worksheets in Compensation Cycle Administration.
- Reject Worksheets: Enables the Reject Worksheet option in the Manager Actions drop-down list in the My Organization tab.
- Reset To In Progress: Enables the Reset to In Progress button in the toolstrip for compensation worksheets. This button allows administrators to reopen worksheets with the Pending Approval or Error status from the Compensation Cycle Administration feature.
- Submit Worksheets: Enables the Submit Worksheet (or Approve and Submit) option in the Manager Actions drop-down list in the My Organization tab.
- Update Bonus Factors: Enables the Update Bonus Factors button in the toolstrip for compensation worksheets. This button allows administrators to update the bonus factors in the Compensation Cycle Administration feature after bonus payouts are imported. You can update bonus factors even after the compensation cycle is already published.
- View Organization in Single Worksheet: Enables access for compensation administrators to view the single worksheet across the organization.
- Compensation Plan Administration: Enables the Compensation Plan Administration feature in which compensation administrators can monitor and update compensation plans assigned to employees after a compensation cycle is published. Further, this feature allows administrators to manage target bonus overrides and update plan assignment dates.
- Compensation Setup: Enables the Compensation Setup feature in which compensation administrators configure guideline, compensation cycles, and reward letter templates for your organization.
- Compensation Cycles: Enables the Compensation Cycles subfeature in which compensation administrators configure and publish compensation cycles.
- Compensation Metrics: Enables the Compensation Metrics subfeature in which compensation administrators configure the compensation metrics used for compensation plans.
- Metrics Data: Enables the Metrics Data tab of Compensation Setup > Compensation Metrics in which administrators import bonus payment values for compensation worksheets that use compensation plans.
- Metrics Definition: Enables the Metrics Definition tab of Compensation Setup > Compensation Metrics in which administrators configure metrics definitions for compensation plans.
- Compensation Organization Approval: Enables the Use Organization Level Submission checkbox in the Schedule and Approval tab of Compensation Setup > Compensation Cycles.
- Compensation Plans: Enables the Compensation Plans subfeature in which compensation administrators configure compensation plans that can be used in compensation cycles.
- Compensation Worksheet Approval: Enables the Workflow drop-down list and the Set Top Level Approvals button in the Schedule and Approval tab of Compensation Setup > Compensation Cycles.
- Equity Setup: Enables the Equity Setup subfeature in which compensation administrators configure equity types and vesting schedules.
- Guidelines: Enables the Guidelines subfeature in which compensation administrators configure guidelines for use in compensation cycles.
- Reward Letter Templates: Enables the Reward Letter Templates subfeature in which the compensation administrators can configure custom reward letter templates for use in compensation cycles.
- Rounding Rules: Enables the Rounding Rules subfeature in which compensation administrators can configure rules to round allocations and quantity for equity rewards in compensation cycles.
Market Pricing Features
To enable access to the market data functionality, assign the following features:
- Market Pricing: Enables the Market Pricing features in the Dayforce navigation panel.
- Compensation Market Data: Enables the Compensation Market Data feature where you can import the market data records that are used in your organization's compensation cycles.
- Experience Levels: Enables the Experience Levels feature where you can configure experience levels for your employees. Experience levels can be assigned to employees in compensation worksheets that include market data.
- Market Data Definition: Enables the Market Data Definition feature where you can create one or more market data definitions to specify which data is required and how it's mapped to employee information in Dayforce.
Reward History Setup Features
To enable access to the reward history setup functionality, assign the following features:
- Reward History Setup: Enables access to the Reward History Setup feature.
- Reward History Data: Enables access to the Reward History Data feature, where you can create reward history data files and import data to use in your organization's compensation cycles.
- Reward History Data Definition: Enables access to the Reward History Data Definition feature, where you can create one or more reward history data definitions to specify which data can be imported to Dayforce.
Payroll Features
To enable access to the compensation functionality in Payroll, assign the following features:
- Payroll > Data Entry > Compensation Data: Enables the Compensation Data tab in Payroll > Data Entry.
- Payroll > Pay Run Management > Compensation Data: Enables the Compensation Data tab in Payroll > Pay Run Management.