Setting Eligibility for Salary Reviews
Eligibility rules help define which employees are included in your Compensation Review — and directly affect the review's budget calculation. You can set separate rules for Salary Review and Total Cash (like target incentives or commissions). This guide walks through how to manage both.
Where to Set Eligibility
Go to the Comp Review Management page.
Click Manage Eligibility under either:
Salary Review Eligibility
Target Commission Eligibility (for Total Cash)
How Eligibility Works
By default, all employees are considered eligible.
You can exclude employees by setting rules.
Employees excluded via eligibility rules will:
Be excluded from the budget
Still appear in the review as gray rows
Be non-editable for proposed comp changes (unless made eligible)
Show a note explaining why they were ineligible
Common Eligibility Criteria
You can apply these filters under each eligibility section. All options work as exclusion rules, meaning selected groups will not be eligible:
Criteria | Description |
|---|---|
Date of Hire | Exclude employees hired on/after a specific date |
Date of Last Increase | Exclude employees who had an increase on/after a certain date |
Employment Type | Exclude Contractors, Part-time, etc. |
Employment Status | Exclude employees on Leave of Absence |
Exemption Status | Exclude based on exempt/non-exempt classification |
Department / Country | Exclude specific departments or countries |
Job Family / Job Level | Exclude roles based on family or level |
Manager | Exclude specific managers and their reporting lines |
Market Data Cut | Exclude based on mapped market cut |
Compa-Ratio | Exclude those under/over a % threshold |
Target Commission Amount (Total Cash) | Include only employees with target amounts matching your input |
Total Cash Compa-Ratio (Total Cash) | Filter by compa-ratio threshold |
Applying and Reviewing Rules
Select your filters and click Apply.
Kamsa will display a list of ineligible employees.
You can grant exceptions:
Click individual names to toggle them back to eligible (marked green).
Use the “Still Eligible” section to manually re-include employees.
Target Commission Eligibility
Kamsa’s Comp Review recommendations for Target Commission and Total Cash increases are for maintaining the market Pay Mix for eligible employees.
You have the option of allowing Comp Reviewers to propose increases to selected employees’ Target Commission amounts during a Comp Review using the steps below:
Within the Comp Review Management page click Manage Eligibility (located on the left side of the page, under Salary Review)
Under the Target Commission Eligibility section, click the Manage button
Next, select a Category you want to use as a criteria to filter and select those you want to be eligible for Target Commission increases.
The most common Category to use is Job Family (this will update employee eligibility for those employees with a matching Kamsa Job Family within the Employee Data page):
Select Job Family from the Category drop-down
Select as many job families as you’d like (e.g., Account Executive, Inside Sales, Solutions Engineering, etc.)
Click Apply