Compensation Workbench Overview

Compensation Workbench is a flexible tool enabling line managers to publish compensation budgets,
and allocate compensation awards and salary increases to their teams. Using Compensation Workbench
for Administrators, compensation administrators can also monitor the progress of compensation cycles
and perform overrides and exception processing, as required.

Super Administrators can control or grant access of compensation workbench plans to administrators.

This topic provides an overview of what you can do using Compensation Workbench.

Line Managers

Your compensation administrator gives you access to a set of tasks for each compensation cycle, such as
budgeting, allocating compensation, entering performance ratings, entering job changes, and approving
the work of subordinate managers. For determining budgets and allocating compensation, you can enter
values directly on a worksheet that enables you to see all your employees in a single view. Alternatively
you can download information to a spreadsheet and work there, or you can use the Allocation Wizard to
help you determine budgets and allocations according to the rules and criteria you choose.

If your manager or compensation administrator gives you a budget, you can choose to hold the entire
budget yourself, or allocate it to your direct reports only, or to all your subordinate managers. If you use
the Allocation Wizard to determine the budget, you can provide budget targets for each employee so
your managers understand the criteria you used for creating their budgets.

See: Budgeting in Compensation Workbench

See: Promotions and Rating in Compensation Workbench

You can save your work at any stage, and submit it for approval when you are ready.

See: Hierarchies for Award Allocations and Approvals

You can use the online reports to view:

 Summary information for one or more compensation plans

 Compensation history for each employee

 Stock option history, including estimated walk-away values

 Changes made to an employee record by other managers in Compensation Workbench (Audit

History)

See: Reports in Compensation Workbench

There are some additional features that your compensation administrator may give you access to:

 Overriding an employee's eligibility or ineligibility for an award

 Reassigning an employee to another manager, for the purposes of award allocation only

 Switching to subordinate managers to enter allocations on their behalf

  Generating a compensation statement for employees to communicate their award

See: Access Levels in Compensation Workbench

See: Eligibility, Award Limits and Targets

See: Configure Worksheet and Budget Sheets

See: Switch Manager