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Last Updated: 2026-03-13
Create Condition Rules for Federal Award Payments Reporting on SF 50 / 52

Create Condition Rules for Federal Award Payments Reporting on SF 50 / 52

Configure Nature of Action codes. See Steps: Set Up Personnel Action Request (PAR).
Map allowance and one-time payment plans in Workday to U.S. federal payment types. See Map Workday Payment Plans to Federal Payment Types.
You can set up condition rules that tell Workday what compensation information values to populate blocks 12 and/or 20 in SF 50 / SF 52 with when a worker has a compensation event that triggers a Personnel Action Request (PAR).
Condition rules you create are triggered only for the PAR-enabled
Request Compensation Change
 and
Request One Time Payment
 processes. If the
Request One Time Payment
 process is run as a subprocess, the condition rules won’t trigger.
  1. Access the
    Maintain Staffing Field Defaults
     task.
    Navigate to the
    Personnel Action Request
     tab.
  2. Create a new item for
    Field 12. Total Salary
     and
    Field 20. Total Salary/Award
    .
    Each field corresponds to their respective block on SF 50 / 52. Create a new item for each Field depending on which block you want to populate with compensation award values. To know what federal payment types are valid for which block, see Map Workday Payment Plans to Federal Payment Types. You can create multiple conditions rules for each field.
  3. Select the prompt in the
    Condition Rule
     column, and select
    Create Personnel Action Request Condition Rule
    .
  4. In the
    Description
     field, enter the nature of action code and name pertaining to this condition rule.
    Example:
    815 Recruitment Incentive (Allowance Plans)
    .
  5. Add
    Rule Conditions
    . As you complete this section, consider:
    Option Description
    Source External Field or Condition Rule
    Create 1 row and select
    5-A. Code
    . Create another row and select
    6-A. Code
    .
    If your condition rule is for a federal payment type that's mapped:
    • Only to one-time payment plans, add a third row and select
      One-Time Payment Event
      .
    • Only to allowance plans, add a third row and select
      Employee Compensation Event
      .
    • To both one-time payment plans and allowance plans, create a third row and select
      One-Time Payment Event
      . Then create a fourth row and select
      Employee Compensation Event
      .
    Relational Operator
    For the rows consisting of
    5-A. Code
     or
    6-A. Code
    , select
    equal to
    .
    For rows consisting of
    One-Time Payment
     or
    Employee Compensation Event
    , select
    is not empty
    .
    Comparison Value
    For rows consisting of
    5-A. Code
     and
    6-A. Code
    , enter the nature of action code corresponding to this condition rule. Example:
    815
     for the Recruitment Incentive NOA.
    And/Or
    Select
    And
     to indicate the beginning of a logical condition.
    Select
    Or
     to indicate a continuation of a logical condition.
    Example: AND (Nature of action 1 OR Nature of Action 2) AND (Employee Compensation Event OR One-Time Payment Event).
    (
    )
    Enter
    (
     to begin 1 of the rule's logical conditions, and enter
    )
     to close it.
    Group your rows pertaining to nature of action codes in 1 condition. Group your rows pertaining to employee compensation events and one-time payment events in another condition.
  6. Select
    OK
    , then reopen the Condition Rule you just created.
    Confirm your condition rule's logic in the
    Derived Logic
     field. Workday uses this derived logic to determine when to apply this condition rule. Example: (5-A. Code equal to 818 Or 6-A. Code equal to 818) And (Employee Compensation Event is not empty).
  7. In the
    Value
     column, select the
    Report Field
     option. In the prompt, select the report field that corresponds to the federal payment type you made the condition rule for.
    Example: if the condition rule is for the
    20. Total Salary/Award
     field, and is for the Relocation Incentive payment type, Select
    Relocation Incentive - Proposed
    .
  8. Select
    OK
    .
When your condition rules are met, Workday overrides the default PAR values according to the rules' configuration. When you:
  • Run a PAR-enabled
    Request Compensation Change
     process and add 1 or more allowance plans tied to a single federal payment type, or...
  • Run a PAR-enabled
    Request One-Time Payment
     process and add 1 or more one-time payment plans tied to a single federal payment type...
Then Workday totals the sum of those plans and displays that sum as a dollar amount on the PAR. If you’ve only mapped 1 percentage-based allowance plan to the AUO federal payment type, Workday returns a percentage on the PAR. PAR values will be picked up for the next scheduled EHRI run.