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Managing & Completing an Active Compensation Cycle

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Written by Jessica Backholm
Updated over 3 months ago

During an active compensation cycle, you will have the following options as an administrator.

  • Pause: Temporarily stops the cycle.

  • Move to Admin Approval: All responsibilities have stopped for recommenders and approvers. Everything has been moved to admin approval.

  • Cancel: The cycle will be stopped but not deleted.

  • Delete: Remove the cycle completely.

Audit

This is where you can check the status of your compensation cycle, showing you which recommenders and approvers are in progress or have submitted.

Approvals

This is where you can see all submissions that have been submitted so far. You can also accept specific employees on the far right hand side at any time.

Admin Approval

In the top right hand corner of the approvals tab, you will see a button to send everything to admin approval. This will remove the outstanding recommendations and approvals and send everything to be approved by the admin.

Update base pay on specific employees as needed by clicking the edit icon on the far right hand side.

Once everything looks good, you can easily click Accept All in the top right hand corner.

When you are ready to complete the cycle, click Complete in the top right hand corner.

Once completed, please determine the following.

  • Payroll effective date.

  • Sharing:

    • Manager: Share cycle results with managers on the share date set at cycle completion.

    • Employee: Share employee compensation changes and statements with employees on the date set below.

  • Export: Export cycle details for manual payroll update

OR

  • Update Payroll: Automatically send the updates to Paychex Flex

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