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Last Updated: 2025-08-22
Steps: Enable Machine Learning for Compensation Benchmark Job Matching

Steps: Enable Machine Learning for Compensation Benchmark Job Matching

You might need to take additional steps to enable this feature based on your organization's subscription service agreement. Your organization is either on the Main Service Agreement (MSA) or the Universal Main Service Agreement (UMSA). To determine your organization's subscription service agreement:
  1. Select your profile avatar on Workday Community.
  2. Select
    Profile
    .
  3. On your profile page, select your organization's name, which is beneath your name and next to your job title.
  4. View your
    Subscription Service Agreement
     value.
If the value is:
  • UMSA
    , the feature is automatically available. You can skip the
    Enable Innovation Services Feature and AI Data Contributions for MSA Customers
     step. For more information on Machine Learning data contributions, see Concept: Workday AI for Universal Main Subscription Agreement Customers.
  • MSA
    , you must enable this feature through Innovation Services using the
    Enable Innovation Services Feature and AI Data Contributions for MSA Customers
    step.
Note: UMSA customers don't have Innovation Services tasks and reports in their tenants as these are for MSA customers only. UMSA customers can ignore all information regarding Innovation Services.
Using machine learning, Workday:
  • Analyzes the data in your tenant that defines the job profiles and jobs from compensation surveys.
  • Matches skills across jobs.
  • Recommends jobs from compensation surveys to match with a job profile.
  1. You might need to take additional steps to enable this feature depending on your organization's subscription service agreement. For more information, see this Community article.
    On the
    Innovation Services Opt-In
     task, select the
    HCM ML Features and Third Party Connectors GA
     service on the
    Available Services
     tab in the
    HCM
     category.
  2. Access the
    Edit Tenant Setup - Machine Learning
     task.
    Select the region in which Workday hosts data used for improvement and personalization of machine learning and analytics functionality.
    Security:
    Set Up: Tenant Setup - Machine Learning
     in the System functional area.
  3. Wait until the next business day for Workday to extract and index survey jobs.
  4. Test your configuration in your implementation tenant only.
    1. Access the
      Run On-Demand Machine Learning Activation for Implementation Tenant
       task.
    2. Select
      HCM ML Features and Third Party Connectors GA
      .
      If you've updated your survey or job profile data, you can run this task only 1 time each day to refresh your suggestions.
    3. Access the
      Maintain Weekly Machine Learning Activation for Implementation Tenant
       task to test on an ongoing basis.
    Security:
    Manage: Innovation Services
     in the Innovation Services functional area.
With machine learning enabled, Workday:
  • Makes recommendations for matching jobs with Workday job profiles on the
    Edit Compensation Survey Job Matches
     task.
  • Uses your mapping of Workday job profile levels to survey job levels on the
    Maintain Compensation Survey Job Level Mapping
     task. This enables machine learning to recommend survey jobs of the right level.
  • Match survey jobs with Workday job profiles on the
    Edit Compensation Survey Job Matches
     task to enable machine learning recommendations for job matches with Workday job profiles.
  • Map Workday job profile levels to survey job levels on the
    Maintain Compensation Survey Job Level Mapping
     task to ensure better machine learning recommendations.