Compensation

Compensation lives on a person's profile under People. It is a history, not a single current figure — one row per change, each with the date it takes effect.

That matters because payroll and any back-pay calculation ask "what were they on last March", and a single current-salary field cannot answer it. The figure in force today is derived from the history.

Who can see it

• You can see your own compensation history. It is read-only — you cannot change your own pay.
• HR admins can see and record anybody's, including their own.
• Line managers cannot see their reports' salaries at all. This is deliberate.

Recording a change

As an HR admin, select the person, then fill in:

• Effective from — the date the amount takes effect.
• Amount — digits only, no currency symbol.
• Per — annual, monthly or hourly.
• Currency and an optional note explaining the change.

A future-dated raise is stored immediately but does not become the current figure until its effective date arrives.

Correcting and withdrawing

Records can be edited and withdrawn. Withdrawing asks you to confirm, and the record stays in the change history rather than disappearing.

The change history

Every create, correction and withdrawal is recorded: who did it, when, and exactly which values moved — for example amount: 90000 → 105000. Only the fields that actually changed are listed.

This exists because compensation is dated history, so editing a row rewrites the past. Without a trail, "what were they on last March" could silently change answer and payroll would never know.

The change history is HR-admin only — stricter than the compensation records themselves, which the person can read. Entries embed the figures and name who made the change.