Getting Started with Administer Compensation

This chapter discusses:

Administer Compensation business processes.
Administer Compensation implementation.

Administer Compensation Overview

With Administer Compensation functionality, you define pay components to determine employee compensation. You can associate pay components with customized rules that use Job record fields to calculate compensation variables consistently throughout your organization.

Pay components might include regular pay, additional pay for work under hazardous conditions, pay for work in a different job, or pay for an equipment allowance. A pay component could be an hourly rate, a flat amount, or an addition to the base hourly rate.

With Administer Compensation, you can:

Figure a percentage of a worker's base pay and use it as a pay component.
Compensate workers using salary points.
Create a unique compensation package for each employee.

Administer Compensation Business Processes

Administer Compensation provides the following business processes:

Defining Compensation Rates and Rules-Driven Component Defaulting.

Set up flexible defaulting rules that automatically update an employee's compensation package based on field values other than job code and salary step code.
Administering Seniority Pay.

Add and update seniority rate codes in employees' compensation pages. Seniority rate codes enable you to pay a premium for seniority.
Refreshing Employee Compensation Information.

Update employee compensation packages based on current values in the system, replacing manual changes with new default values.
Using Market Pay.

Capture market pay data to represent the conclusion of a job valuation or market pricing business processes.

We discuss these business processes in the business process chapters in this PeopleBook.

Administer Compensation Integrations

Human Resources integrates with all the PeopleSoft HRMS applications, with other PeopleSoft applications, and with third-party applications.

Human Resources shared tables are available to many PeopleSoft HRMS applications. In addition, data in many Human Resources tables is available to any PeopleSoft application that is set up to subscribe to the published messages.

The Administer Compensation business process integrates with the following PeopleSoft HRMS applications:

PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources Administer Workforce.
PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources Manage Base Compensation and Budgeting.
PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources Manage Positions.

We discuss integration considerations in this PeopleBook.

Administer Compensation Implementation

PeopleSoft Setup Manager enables you to generate a list of setup tasks for your organization based on the features that you are implementing. The setup tasks include the components that you must set up, listed in the order in which you must enter data into the component tables, and links to the corresponding PeopleBook documentation.

Administer Compensation also provides component interfaces to help you load data from your existing system into Administer Compensation tables. Use the Excel to Component Interface utility with the component interfaces to populate the tables.

This table lists the component that has a setup component interface:

Component	Component Interface	References
COMP_RATECD_TBL	CI_COMP_RATECD_TBL	See Setting Up Rate Codes.
JOB_CODE_TBL	CI_JOB_CODE_TBL	See Defining Job Function Codes.
SALARY_GRADE_TBL	SALARY_GRADE_TBL	See Setting Up Salary Plans, Grades, and Steps.

Other Sources of Information

In the planning phase of your implementation, take advantage of all PeopleSoft sources of information, including the installation guides, data models, business process maps, and troubleshooting guidelines. A complete list of these resources appears in the preface in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS 8.9 Application Fundamentals PeopleBook, with information about where to find the most current version of each.