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Last Updated: 2024-02-09
Set Up Quality Step Increase

Set Up Quality Step Increase

Set up compensation grades. See Create Compensation Grades.
Set up compensation grade steps. See Create Compensation Grade Steps.
Set up automatic compensation grade step progression schedules. See Set Up Automatic Grade Step Progression Schedules.
Configure the default definition and business process security policy for the
Quality Step Increase
 business process.
Security:
Process: Within Grade Increase
 in the Core Compensation functional area.
Quality step increases in Workday grant employees a one-time step increase that doesn't impact their normal step progression schedule.
  1. Access the
    Maintain Event Categories and Reasons
     task.
    1. Select the
      Request Compensation Change
       event.
    2. Create a
      Reason Category
       named
      Quality Step Increase
      , or whatever your organization prefers.
    3. Create a
      Reason
       to denote why a worker will receive a quality step increase. Examples:
      Temporary Promotion
      , or
      Outstanding Rating
      .
  2. Access the
    Edit Step Progression Configuration
     task.
    Add your reason to
    Quality Step Increase Reason Code
     field. This will be the default reason listed in the quality step increase request.
  3. Access the
    Request Quality Step Increase
     task.
Workday sends the user configured to review the quality step increase a
My Tasks
 notification with the options to approve, deny, cancel, or add additional reviewers to the request.
The worker receiving the quality step increase retains their normal step progression schedule.