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Last Updated: 2026-03-13
Set Up Compa Integration for Real-Time Benchmarking

Set Up Compa Integration for Real-Time Benchmarking

You must be a Compa customer to use this feature.
Security: the
Security Administration
 domain in the System functional area.
You can embed Compa’s real-time benchmarking intelligence into your Workday compensation workflows. This integration surfaces contextual compensation insights directly within these business processes at the point of compensation decisions:
  • Change Job.
  • Hire.
  • Request Compensation Change.
Viewing this market information in real-time helps to reduce costs associated with employee compensation by providing:
  • Efficient workflows: You can view competitive salary benchmarks and market ranges without having to navigate to an external application, helping to prevent the likelihood of errors as a result of context-switching.
  • Consistent decisions: The Compa integration provides a single source of truth for market pay at the point of decision, helping to prevent pay equity issues, and to provide more effective competition for talent acquisition.
  • Decreased risk: Precise, timely market data helps to prevent overpaying that leads to inflated labor costs, and underpaying that leads to higher employee turnover and hiring difficulties.
To know what data to display, the Compa card matches the Workday job profile and location with the equivalent in your company’s Compa database. If there aren’t enough data points for a job profile in a certain location, the Compa card won’t display any salary amounts even if the job profile is matched.
  1. Access the
    Compa Configuration
     task.
    Enter the Compa-provided
    API Key
    .
  2. Edit Domain Security Policies.
    Access the
    Compa Embedded
     domain in the Core Compensation functional area. Create a security policy and grant
    View
     permissions to security groups you want to be able to see the Compa card during the compensation step of supported business processes.
  3. If you use compensation change templates, configure your templates for the
    Change Job
    ,
    Hire (Propose Compensation Change)
    , and
    Request Compensation Change
     processes. Select
    Compa Embedded
     in the
    Select Sections for Template
     field, then configure the fields you want to display on the Compa card for those processes.
Users with
View
 security access on the
Compa Embedded
 domain will see a Compa card that displays compensation insights during the compensation step of the
Change Job
,
Hire
, and
Request Compensation Change
 processes.
If you:
  • Don’t use compensation change templates, the Compa card displays all fields in all 3 processes.
  • Use compensation change templates, the Compa card displays only the fields you’ve configured in your templates.