Compensation Management | StarGarden 6 Core HR

Summary of the Employee Compensation Functionality:

The Compensation module maintains, tracks, compares, surveys, and reports wage and salary plans for individual employees, or groups of employees. All commonly used salary grids/matrices can be defined with ease and flexibility.

Global changes can be easily applied as any number of selection criteria are available.

Features

  • Unlimited number of plans, grades per plan, steps per grade
  • Any number of additional pays (allowances, stipends) can be attached to the employee wage record
  • Compa-ratio calculations
  • Salary grids can be created based upon job evaluations
  • Recording of compensation survey information for regional or occupational comparisons
  • Controlled, audited compensation changes
  • Effective dates on changes, mass generation of global changes with extensive selection and change criteria
  • Simulated salary updating for modeling scenarios (what-if analysis) and collective agreement costing
  • Full organizational compensation analysis

Compensation Management Overview

Managing compensation in a complex organization means maintaining accurate pay structures across multiple bargaining units, step progressions, and job evaluation systems, all of which change with every collective agreement negotiation. StarGarden 6 gives HR and Payroll teams a controlled, configurable system for defining salary plans, managing pay grids, costing collective agreement changes, and tracking compensation history across employee groups and positions.
Pay structures connect directly to the position record rather than to individual employees, so compensation stays accurate and consistent as people move through the organization.

Key Capabilities

Compensation Management includes capabilities to support salary plan administration, compensation analysis, CBA costing, and workforce pay modelling.

Define salary plans, grades, and steps

Build unlimited compensation plans with any number of grades per plan and steps per grade. Salary grids and matrices can be defined with ease and flexibility to reflect your organization's actual pay structures, including CBA-driven pay grids, step progressions, and job evaluation systems.

Attach additional pays to employee records

Add any number of additional pay types, including allowances, stipends, and other supplementary compensation, directly to the employee wage record without requiring custom development.

Model and cost compensation changes

Run simulated salary updates to model what-if scenarios and cost collective agreement changes before they take effect. This gives HR and Finance teams the visibility to plan and negotiate with accurate data.

Apply controlled, audited pay changes

All compensation changes are controlled and audited with effective dates. Mass changes can be generated with extensive selection and change criteria, so global updates apply consistently and leave a clear audit trail.

Benchmark with compensation survey data

Record compensation survey information for regional or occupational comparisons, giving your organization the context to evaluate pay competitiveness and inform planning decisions.

Analyze compensation across the organization

Run full organizational compensation analysis and compa-ratio calculations to support workforce planning, equity reviews, and pay structure decisions across groups, positions, and bargaining units.

How Compensation Management Works

StarGarden 6 gives HR and Payroll teams a controlled, auditable system for managing compensation plans, salary grids, and pay changes across employee groups and collective agreements.

Set up and maintain compensation plans

Define salary plans, grades, steps, and additional pay types to reflect your organization's actual compensation structures. Salary grids can be tied directly to job evaluation systems, and CBA-driven pay grids can be modelled and maintained within the same environment.

Manage changes with control and auditability

Apply compensation changes with effective dates and full audit trails. Generate mass changes across selected employee groups using extensive criteria, or make individual adjustments where needed. Every change is tracked and reversible.

Model scenarios and cost collective agreements

Use simulated salary updating to run what-if analyses on proposed changes before committing. Cost collective agreement scenarios accurately so HR and Finance have reliable data going into negotiations or budget cycles.

Full Connectivity Across StarGarden 6

Compensation Management connects directly to the modules, processes, and workflows across StarGarden 6, keeping pay structures accurate and consistent across the system.

Core HR

Compensation Management sits within the Core HR employee record alongside Organization Management, Employee Demographics, Benefits Management, and Accruals and Balances. Pay plans and compensation structures connect directly to position records, so compensation stays accurate and consistent as employees move through the organization.

Extended HR

Compensation connects to Recruitment and Performance Management within Extended HR. Job valuation information flows into the recruitment process to support postings and offer decisions, and performance review outcomes can inform compensation changes and step progressions within the same system.

Workflow

StarGarden 6's embedded workflow toolset routes compensation changes through the right approval channels. Effective-dated pay changes, mass updates, and CBA-driven adjustments participate in those workflows so compensation administration moves through defined processes rather than being handled manually or outside the system.

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Compensation Management Built for Complexity

Structure, model, and manage compensation plans and salary grids in one connected StarGarden 6 system.

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