# Review Employee Compensation

Status: draft · v0.1.0 · Compensation System
draft reference — not a fitted standard

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
1. Charter the compensation review — Define the question, scope, authority, and evidence before examining an outcome.
2. Verify work, structure, and employment context — Anchor the review to approved work and current conditions.
3. Verify compensation data and history — Build one accurate component-level record before interpreting pay.
4. Analyze internal and market relationships — Locate pay within the company’s intended structure and relevant labor context.
5. Analyze contribution and legitimate factors — Apply only authorized factors with evidence and consistent meaning.
6. Test consistency, equity, affordability, and risk — Evaluate the whole-system effects before proposing options.
7. Form options and hand off the analysis — Present decision-ready alternatives without making or communicating the decision.

## Connections
- upstream: Maintain Job and Career Architecture (/processes/maintain-job-and-career-architecture) — trigger: Employee compensation is reviewed.
- upstream: Review Performance and Contribution (/processes/review-performance-and-contribution) — trigger: Contribution is an approved compensation factor for the decision type.
- upstream: Make a Progression or Talent Decision (/processes/make-progression-or-talent-decision) — trigger: An implemented role or scope change requires compensation review.
- downstream: Make and Communicate a Compensation Decision (/processes/make-and-communicate-compensation-decision) — trigger: The compensation decision owner accepts the review package.
- downstream: Operate Pay Structures and Equity Controls (/processes/operate-pay-structures-and-equity-controls) — trigger: A review identifies a structural rather than individual issue.

## Measures
- Compensation review decision usefulness: Structured decision-owner assessment of whether the package resolved the question with sufficient evidence and options; not acceptance of the recommendation alone.
- Compensation review evidence completeness: Review records satisfying required evidence and control fields divided by all completed review records.
- Compensation review cycle time: Elapsed time from charter acceptance to decision-owner acknowledgement, separated by data, mapping, analysis, specialist, and finance waits.
- Controlled compensation-review method use: Completed reviews conforming to the active method divided by all completed reviews.
- Compensation review issue pattern: Issues and returned gaps by type, population, role, source, severity, cause, age, and disposition.
- Pay consistency, equity, privacy, and promise guardrail: Qualified review of evidence, comparison groups, factors, access, recommendations, communications, and outcomes; not a legal conclusion.