Workday Compensation Steps Notes

The task to create/maintain steps is called Maintain Compensation Steps. Create Compensation Grade Steps on Community.

• Steps are built off of compensation grade and associated with a salary or hourly pay plan.
• Steps can Allow Override to allow overriding the step value in a worker's compensation package.
• Workday prefers Grade Profile Steps when a worker matches a grade profile eligibility rule and falls back on Grade Steps.
• Sequences should follow 01, 02, etc.
• Progression rules are optional. The rule on the current step must evaluate true to move workers onto the next step. Examples for rule criteria include age, length of service, job profile, or collective agreement.
• A minimum length of time in the step can be defined, like 6 months or 2 Years. (It must be a whole number and cannot be 0.5 years)

Automatic Compensation Grade Step Progression Schedules ensure that step progression occurs on time. Set Up Automatic Compensation Grade Step Progression Schedules on Community.

• Workday recommends scheduling Employee Compensation Step Progression and Employees Eligible for Next Compensation Step reports to run at the same time as the progression process.
• The task is Schedule Automatic Step Progression. The scheduling options include Daily, Weekly, Every x Week(s), etc. like integrations and reports.

How automatic progression works:

• Process evaluates if the interval + period or the step progression rule on the current step applies. If so, employees progress to the next step and the process updates the comp history for those employees.
• If there is a progression rule, the compensation change effective date is the date of the scheduled run. If the step is associated with an interval/period, the effective date is the date the employees meet that time requirements.
• If an employee is in a parallel compensation event, Workday does not progress them to the next step. The previously mentioned reports identify those employees. The process will wait until they no longer have a parallel step and then execute the step with the effective date they would have had if it weren't delayed.