Salary Reviews for Planners and Final approvers

Learn more how you a Salary Review works for you as a Planner and/or Final approver

A Salary Review can only be set up by an Owner in Simployer One. You will receive a notification if you are to be part of a Salary Review either as a Planner or a Final approver.

Parties involved in a salary review

• Planner: Your role is to provide salary suggestions or recommendations for your designated group of employees. These suggestions will be reviewed by the Final Approver for approval.
• Final approver: As the Final Approver, you review all the recommendations submitted by the Planners. After your review, you either approve or reject the proposed changes. If you approve the changes, a new salary, starting with the predefined effective date, will be automatically created in the employees’ profiles in Simployer One.

Important dates to remember

• Start date: This is the date when Planners will receive the notification email and can begin submitting their salary recommendations for their employees.
• Final approver date: This is the last day for the Final Approver to complete their review and either approve or reject the salary recommendations.
• Effective date: This is the date when the new salaries for all eligible employees will take effect. After the Final Approver approves to “Update Salaries”, the new salary information will be added the compensation section of the employees’ profiles in Simployer One. The previous compensation details will be retained for historical reference.

Salary Review for a Planner

1. Go to Engagement > Salary Reviews to view all active processes you are part of.
2. In a specific Salary review you will see:
   1. Information such as budget allocation and progress overview
   2. Important dates to keep in mind of.
   3. The list of employees you are asked to submit a suggestion for salary change
      1. Depending on the settings made by the owner, you can allocate a budget for each employee based on amount and/or percentage.
   4. Note: You are free to suggest within or even above your given budget. However it is up to the Final approver to approve or reject your suggestions. If rejected, you will be notified and will have an opportunity to adjust this.
3. When you are done with your suggestions make sure to “Send to final approver”. You can not make edits after submission unless it has been rejected.

Salary Review for a Final approver

• Go to Engagement > Salary Reviews to view all active processes you are part of.
• In a specific Salary review you will see:
  • Information about the budget, progress and involved parties
  • Important dates to keep in mind of.
  • A list of all Planners and their status

• On the list of Planners you can compare and review each individual suggestion made by expanding the list with the arrow next to their name before approval. If needed, feel free to use the filtering tool above.
• When you are done reviewing, you can choose to either Approve or Reject the Planner’s suggestions.
  • Approve: The review performed by the Planner will be locked.
  • Reject: The Planner will get a notification that the salary review suggestions have been rejected. The planner will be able to revise and send in a new suggestion.
• When you have approved each review you can finalize the salary review and continue "Updating Salaries".
  • A popup will appear allowing you to update salaries of the employee’s profile either straight away or you can choose to do so later. The time you choose to press “Update salaries” will not affect the previously chosen effective date already set in the Salary review.

Updating salaries will send a notification to the employee stating an update has been made to their profile unless they have turned this off in their notification settings.