Use this screen to select the method used both for looking up an increase percent (used for deriving new salary amounts) and for validating the employee Salary Info and History table in Costpoint Employee.
The system uses this data to derive the new salary amounts whenever you add a new line to an employee's Salary Info and History table. You can add the new line either manually or by using the Update Employee Salary Based on Review screen in Costpoint Employee, if a performance rating is also included on the line. This will apply only to "Grade" and "Quartile" types of compensation plans (plans which have a Plan Type of Min-Mid-Max or Quartile in the Compensation Plans screen). "Step" plans (plans which have a Plan Type of Step in the Compensation Plans screen) automatically have a one-to-one relationship with the merit increase.
You can always override an employee's salary amount in the Salary Info and History table. This table will be used for the lookup and validation if it is populated; however, if you have set up the Performance Rating Percent by Plan/By Grade table, that table will be used when applicable. You can have the system automatically create this table.
You must establish compensation plans and performance ratings before initializing this table. Set up this table as part of your system initialization.
Use this group box to create increments between performance ratings for this table. For example, your ratings may be "4.0" and "3.0," but an employee may receive a rating of "3.5." If your choice was One-Half, the table will fill with "4.0," "3.5," and "3.0" ratings for each quadrant. This field is used only for the Auto Load feature.
Select this radio button to increment your ratings by fourths.
Select this radio button to increment your ratings by thirds.
Select this radio button to increment your ratings by halves.
Select this radio button to have a one-to-one relationship between your ratings and this table. This radio button is the system default.
Use this group box to determine the order in which your rating codes will be compiled in this table. The system default is ascending order.
Select this radio button to compile ratings codes in ascending order.
Select this radio button to compile rating codes in descending order.
After selecting the New Line button on the toolbar, enter, or use Lookup to select, the compensation plan code to which this table applies. If you prefer, you can use the Auto Load pushbutton to automatically generate this table for you.
The applicable ranges for each quartile/grade will default accordingly in this column. This information is obtained from the Column Titles group box in the Compensation Plans screen. If you prefer, you can use the Auto Load pushbutton to automatically generate this table for you.
Enter, or use Lookup to select, the performance rating. Company-wide performance ratings are set up in the Performance Ratings table. If you prefer, you can use the Auto Load pushbutton to automatically generate this table for you.
Enter the merit percentage to which this Quartile/Grade number and rating applies. The employee's salary in the Salary Info and History table will be changed by this percentage amount whenever you add a new line to the table and a performance rating is included on the line.
Select this pushbutton to auto load this table with a selected compensation plan. After you select the Auto Load pushbutton, a Lookup table appears on the screen. Highlight the Comp. Plan code you want to load and choose the Select pushbutton. A new dialog box will appear, and the selected plan code will appear in the Enter Compensation Plan field; select the OK pushbutton to load this plan. If the plan is a "Step" plan (i.e., plans which have a Plan Type of Step in the Compensation Plans screen), you will receive an error message, and you must select a new plan code that is a "Grade" or "Quartile" type of plan. The data that is associated with the selected compensation plan code will load automatically, and you can then edit it in the main screen table window. The Auto Load process will generate a line for each plan, for each quadrant within a plan, and for each rating within a quadrant. If you have selected a rating increment in the Rating Increment group box, those increments will be included in this table.
Changes to this screen update the RATING_BY_PLAN table.