Guidelines for Loading Grade Rates

A grade rate is a collection of general information about a payment type, such as salary, bonus, or overtime. It includes details such as the currency, frequency of the payment, and annualization factor.

For example, the Overtime Rate Analysts grade rate could provide this information for the overtime payments made to analysts. Grade rates are associated with grade-rate values. Each associated grade-rate value identifies a grade and either a fixed payment or a payment range for the grade. For a payment range, you must supply both the minimum and maximum values. This topic describes aspects of the Grade Rate object that you must understand to load grade rates successfully.

Loading Referenced Objects

Grade rates and grade-rate values are created for a legislative data group. Therefore, Legislative Data Group objects must exist before you load grade rates.

Loading Translated Grade-Rate Names

Supply grade-rate names in the language of the user who's loading them. You supply a GradeRateTranslation.dat file to translate grade-rate names into other enabled languages once the grade rates exist. This example translates the name of an existing grade rate. It identifies the grade rate by its source key.

METADATA|GradeRateTranslation|SourceSystemOwner|SourceSystemId|EffectiveStartDate|Language|GradeRateName
MERGE|GradeRateTranslation|VISION|GR_CIV_SAL|2000/01/01|FR|Salaire civile

Deleting Grade Rates

You can delete a Grade Rate object using HCM Data Loader, provided that it's not referenced by another object, such as Salary Basis. If you delete a grade rate, then its associated grade-rate values are deleted automatically. This example GradeRate.dat file deletes an existing grade rate and its grade-rate values. It identifies the grade rate by its source key.

METADATA|GradeRate|SourceSystemOwner|SourceSystemId|EffectiveStartDate
DELETE|GradeRate|VISION|GR_CIV_SAL|2000/01/01