Configure Assignment Segments Options of a Compensation Component

You can include prorated values for relevant component worksheet columns. Do this by setting up assignment segment options for only one of the compensation components configured for the compensation cycle. Don't enable assignment segments for a component that you're mapping to salary rates.

1. On the create or edit component dialog box for the appropriate compensation component, select Component for assignment segments. For example, you want to prorate bonus allocations, so you enable the Bonus compensation component for assignment segments.

2. Select an amount column for assignment segments, either the Compensation Amount column or a miscellaneous rate column for the component. This selection lets you feed the assignment segment total to a column that managers see in their summaries.

   The amount could have additional calculations done on it before it's passed to payroll element entries. For example, you select a miscellaneous rate column for the assignment segment. The value in that rate column could be part of a dynamic calculation configured on the compensation amount column. The calculation could increase or decrease the rate column value further.

   Caution: Don't select a column that you're configuring with a dynamic calculation or a default value. Specifying the column as an assignment segment takes precedent over any other configurations for that column, and the other configurations are ignored.

   The selected column shows as read-only in any task worksheets with the column enabled. If you select the compensation amount column, these columns are also read-only in any worksheet where you enable them:

   • Percentage of Eligible Salary
   • Percentage of Budget Pool
3. Specify whether to publish the total segments amount to the selected amount column by default when you run the Start Workforce Compensation Cycle process.