Salary Start Date Exceptions for Rate Synchronization Transaction Dates

The Synchronize Grade Step Rates process sets the salary start date using the transaction date.

Sometimes the salary start date calculated from the transaction date is before the date the person moved to their current step or grade. This can happen when the rate synchronization details Transaction Date is one of these options:

• Grade step rate change date
• Start of current pay period
• Use formula

When the calculated date is before the current step or grade date, the process sets the salary start date to the person's current assignment. The process identifies the current assignment using the effective date. Thus the assignment it finds might not be the assignment with the latest start date.

For example, your Transaction Date is Grade step rate change date and you updated your rate values effective January 1, 2021. On February 2, 2021, a person moved from step 4 to step 5. You run the process with an effective date of February 2, 2021, which the process uses to find the person's current assignment. The process identifies that the person is on step 5, so it updates the person's salary with the new rate for step 5. Usually, the process would set the start date of the updated salary according to the transaction date setting. In this example, that date is the effective date of the updated rate values, January 1, 2021. But that start date doesn't make sense for this person, who moved to the new step on February 2, 2021. You wouldn't want to update their rate for step 5 even a day before they moved to the step. So, the process sets the salary start date to the start date of the assignment the process identified is current, February 2, 2021.