{"slug":"review-employee-compensation","name":"Review Employee Compensation","family":"Compensation System","version":"0.1.0","status":"draft","note":"draft reference — not a fitted standard","summary":"Create a complete, current, and reviewable analysis of an employee’s compensation in relation to approved work, pay structures, legitimate factors, contribution evidence, market context, and organizational effects.","purpose":"Identify whether compensation warrants no change, correction, adjustment, structural action, or further qualified review without letting a manager request, market number, or performance conclusion decide pay by itself.","steps":[{"sequence":1,"name":"Charter the compensation review","purpose":"Define the question, scope, authority, and evidence before examining an outcome."},{"sequence":2,"name":"Verify work, structure, and employment context","purpose":"Anchor the review to approved work and current conditions."},{"sequence":3,"name":"Verify compensation data and history","purpose":"Build one accurate component-level record before interpreting pay."},{"sequence":4,"name":"Analyze internal and market relationships","purpose":"Locate pay within the company’s intended structure and relevant labor context."},{"sequence":5,"name":"Analyze contribution and legitimate factors","purpose":"Apply only authorized factors with evidence and consistent meaning."},{"sequence":6,"name":"Test consistency, equity, affordability, and risk","purpose":"Evaluate the whole-system effects before proposing options."},{"sequence":7,"name":"Form options and hand off the analysis","purpose":"Present decision-ready alternatives without making or communicating the decision."}],"connections":[{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Maintain Job and Career Architecture","processSlug":"maintain-job-and-career-architecture","trigger":"Employee compensation is reviewed."},{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Review Performance and Contribution","processSlug":"review-performance-and-contribution","trigger":"Contribution is an approved compensation factor for the decision type."},{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Make a Progression or Talent Decision","processSlug":"make-progression-or-talent-decision","trigger":"An implemented role or scope change requires compensation review."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Make and Communicate a Compensation Decision","processSlug":"make-and-communicate-compensation-decision","trigger":"The compensation decision owner accepts the review package."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Operate Pay Structures and Equity Controls","processSlug":"operate-pay-structures-and-equity-controls","trigger":"A review identifies a structural rather than individual issue."}],"plannedConnections":[],"measures":[{"name":"Compensation review decision usefulness","definition":"Structured decision-owner assessment of whether the package resolved the question with sufficient evidence and options; not acceptance of the recommendation alone.","cadence":"Per cycle"},{"name":"Compensation review evidence completeness","definition":"Review records satisfying required evidence and control fields divided by all completed review records.","cadence":"At handoff"},{"name":"Compensation review cycle time","definition":"Elapsed time from charter acceptance to decision-owner acknowledgement, separated by data, mapping, analysis, specialist, and finance waits.","cadence":"Weekly during cycle and monthly"},{"name":"Controlled compensation-review method use","definition":"Completed reviews conforming to the active method divided by all completed reviews.","cadence":"Per cycle"},{"name":"Compensation review issue pattern","definition":"Issues and returned gaps by type, population, role, source, severity, cause, age, and disposition.","cadence":"Quarterly"},{"name":"Pay consistency, equity, privacy, and promise guardrail","definition":"Qualified review of evidence, comparison groups, factors, access, recommendations, communications, and outcomes; not a legal conclusion.","cadence":"Per cycle and at material signal"}]}