Custom Reports for Workday Advanced Compensation

With Workday’s pre-built reports for Advanced Compensation, you’ll have access to a wealth of valuable information at your fingertips.

But, with the power of custom reporting, you can take your compensation strategy to the next level!

We’ve listed a few of our go-to Workday-delivered reports below, as well as some useful Custom Report definitions that you can download!

Download our Custom Report Definitions for Workday’s Advanced Compensation module!

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Custom Reports

Average Merit Increase by Performance – Shared Participation

Report Type: Custom Matrix Report

What the Report Does


This report will show the average merit increase for each performance rating associated with the review.  It will break out the merit awards by performance rating and show the average percent increase for each rating option. 

If you’ve ever worked with embedded analytics, this report may look familiar. We suggest building this out as a standalone report in order to run it whenever you want!

Use Cases

  • This report allows you to easily see how merit increases during a compensation review process correlate to performance ratings given during annual reviews
  • This report can help audit awards during an in-progress compensation review or analyze awards after the review has been completed
  • You can replace “Performance Rating” with other fields such as Management Level, Age, gender, race/ethnicity
  • Can also be included in Compensation Review dashboards

In the example below, the report returned all workers enrolled in any medical plan along with details of the election. Results returned in just a few seconds.

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Compensation Review Budget by Cost Center (Merit)

Report Type: Custom Matrix Report

What the Report Does

This report shows a breakdown of the compensation review budget by Cost Center (or any other organization type).  This shows you the budgeted amount compared the amount spent for each cost center in the compensation review process.

Use Cases

  • Typically, the Compensation Review Process is based on the supervisory organization structure.  It can be helpful to view the budget/spend amounts for a process broken out by other organization types, such as cost center.
  • Will allow you to compare the budget and spend for each Cost Center included in a Compensation Review Process.
  • This will allow you to view budget information for both the in-progress and completed review.
  • Can be included in a Compensation Review dashboard.
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Workday-Delivered Reports

Compensation Review Process Status Report by Hierarchy

Report Type: Workday-Delivered

What the Report Does

This report shows a great overview of the Compensation Review Process.  It shows a summary of the pool amounts for the process, along with an overall status graphic. 

Additionally, it will list all organizations included in the compensation review process.  For each organization, it will show the status, who is awaiting action, as well as organization level pool information.

Use Cases

  • Will show process level information about status and budget, and will also show organization level information about status and budget
  • View summarized Pool & Spend information for the process
  • View the submission status for each organization included in the compensation review process
  • View Budget information for each organization
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View Bonus Calculation

Report Type: Workday-Delivered

What the Report Does

This report will show a worker’s detailed bonus calculation.  This report will show all of the components going into the bonus calculation, such as the bonus target, actual bonus amount, and the discretionary and non-discretionary amounts. 

You can also see the proration segments associated with the bonus calculation. 

Use Cases

  • This report can be very helpful when confirming the bonus calculation for the process.
  •  It will show you all of the information included in the bonus calculation, allowing you to view every component and how it is calculated in the final bonus target.  
  • This report can be very helpful when creating/updating the bonus calculation.  It will allow you to audit the calculation and confirm it is working as expected.
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Compensation Review Calculations – Employee Details

Report Type: Workday-Delivered

What the Report Does

This report will show employee Merit awards, Bonus awards, and Stock awards from a prompted compensation review process.

It is prompted for the Compensation Review Process and Organization(s), and will show Performance, Merit, Bonus, and Stock award information for each worker in the prompted organization(s) and review process.  

Use Cases

  • This report provides a delivered way for users to view employee awards from an in-progress or completed compensation review process. 
  • This report can be very useful for Managers to view all of the awards for their direct reports within the same report. 
  • This report can also be helpful in a Compensation Review Dashboard.
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