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Enable Total Compensation for Your Company

Dianmarie
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Admins must enable Total Compensation for the company or a smaller group of employees before they can see their Total Compensation view. 

Note: Once enabled, Total Compensation must be disabled to make changes.

Permissions for Total Compensation

Total compensation cannot be used until all employees are allowed to view their own compensation data. To ensure employees have visibility into the necessary fields:

  1. Navigate to Admin > People > Permissions
  2. Select Edit next to the Self permission.
  3. Ensure the following employee fields are all set to "View Only" permission level:
    1. Base Pay Amount
    2. Bonus Plan Amount
    3. Equity Quantity Granted
    4. Variable Pay Amount
    5. Job Function
    6. Job Level
    7. Job Type
    8. Pay Zone
      Note: All fields are required to be set to "View Only" even if an employee does not have any data associated with that field. For example, even if no employees have a Variable Pay Amount set, the Variable Pay Amount field still needs to be set to "View Only" to enable Total Compensation. 

Launch Total Compensation to all employees

  1. Navigate to Admin > Compensation > Total Compensation. 
  2. Select Enable Total Compensation > Enable. 
    • Note: Total Compensation will be enabled for all eligible employees by default. Manage visibility to select employees within the Employee Visibility tab. 

Launch Total Compensation to select employees

By default, Total Compensation is visible to all eligible employees once enabled. You can manage employee visibility by employee or group within the Employee Visibility tab.

  1. Navigate to Admin > Compensation > Total Compensation. 
  2. Go to the Employee Visibility tab. 
  3. Choose to manage employee visibility By Employee or By Groups.
  4. (For By Employee) Toggle on or off visibility for select employees. 
  5. Select Enable Total Compensation > Enable.
    • Note: Hover over the Total Compensation button to see the number of employees that can access their view once enabled.

1. By employee

You can enable Total Compensation for select employees by manually excluding them from seeing their Total Compensation view. The Employee table includes a list of all eligible employees alongside a toggle to enable visibility.

There are two ways to change an employee's status by employee:

  • Manually toggle on or off the employee's Visibility status.
  • Bulk change status by filtering and selecting by department, manager, or visibility status and choosing Turn Visibility On or Turn Visibility Off. 

Ineligible employees 

Ineligible employees will not be able to view their total compensation. Reasons include:

  • There is no compensation data for this employee.
  • This employee is paid hourly.
  • The currency the employee is paid in is missing a currency conversion rate.

Expand the Show Ineligible Employees row to view the specific reasoning for each employee.

2. By groups

You can enable Total Compensation for select groups of employees created within Lattice. Lattice Groups allow you to define the audience by specific default or custom field instead of manual selection. If an employee's field value changes (e.g., changing location from USA to UK), their group assignment will automatically update, which may change their Total Compensation visibility status. 

Under Add Groups to Manage Employee Visibility, add one or more groups. All group members will be given visibility to Total Compensation. To remove visibility for an employee, you must edit and remove the employee from the group. 

After Enabling Total Compensation

After enabling Total Compensation for some or all employees, employees who received access will receive a task on their Lattice homepage with the text "View your total compensation" that links to their Total Compensation view. There is no email notification sent upon enabling Total Compensation.

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