Workday WorkdayProCompensationExam Workday-Pro-Compensation Exam Dumps: Updated Questions & Answers (November 2025)

Some countries (e.g., Italy, Spain) legally require employees to be paid13 or 14 times per year.

Workday supports this by using aPeriod Salary Planwith amultiplier, which allows additional months, weeks, or days of pay.

In this case, to meet the legislation for an extra month, configure theperiod salary plan with a 1-month multiplier.

Why not the others?

A. Amount-based allowance plan→ Allowances are supplemental, not designed for legislated base salary multipliers.

B. Percent-based merit plan→ Merit is performance-based, not a legislative requirement.

C. One-time payment plan→ One-time payments are ad hoc, not recurring annual extra months.

Assigning acompensation grade to a job profilelinks that job to adefined pay range(min, midpoint, max).

This ensures that whenever employees are hired or promoted into the job profile, Workdaydefaults the pay range guidanceautomatically.

Managers and HR can then use this information to propose fair and competitive pay.

Why not the others?

B. Target compensation amount→ Target comp is usually set at the employee or plan level, not the grade.

C. Eligibility for bonus plans→ Controlled viaeligibility rules, not compensation grades.

D. Compensation frequency→ Determined byplan setup (annual, monthly, hourly), not by grades.

By default, Workday restricts one-time payments so that onlyone plan per effective date/reasoncan be entered.

To allowmultiple one-time payments(different plans and pay dates, same effective date/reason), you must enable:

“Enable Multiple One-Time Payments”inEdit Tenant Setup – HCM.

Why not the others?

A. Add Review step for HR Partner→ Impacts workflow, not configuration.

B. Disable Pay Date Help Text→ Only changes help text display, not functionality.

D. Configure same eligibility rules & package→ Doesn’t override the one-payment-per-effective-date limitation.

APeriod Salary Planin Workday supports paying employees more than 12 times per year (e.g., 13 or 14 payments for regions like Italy or Spain).

This allows payroll to spread annual salary across the correct number of pay periods.

Why not the others?

A. Unit salary plan– Pays based on units (like per credit hour for faculty), not extra months.

B. Hourly plan– Pays by worked hours, not relevant to salaried employees.

D. Salary plan– Standard salary plan assumes 12 months and does not support extra pay periods.

Gross Up= Adjusting a payment so that after tax deductions, the employee takes home the intended net amount.

Example: If you want an employee tonet $1,000, and taxes are 20%, Workday will calculate and issue ~$1,250 gross so the employee keeps $1,000 after taxes.

Why not the others?

A. Show taxes to user→ Not what Gross Up does.

B. Manual update required→ Gross up is automated, not manual.

C. Apply taxes normally→ Workday already applies taxes; gross up goes further by adjusting amounts.

If theeligibility rule for Sales / Australia profileis changed to remove “Sales,” thenall Australian employees(regardless of job family) become eligible.

As a result:

Any Australian employee moving roles will be assigned the allowance.

Sales employees will no longer qualify, so their allowances are automatically removed during compensation/job changes.

Why not the others?

A. Sales removed immediately→ Removal only happens at a transaction/job change evaluation.

C. All Australians automatically enrolled→ Not automatic, triggered during job/comp events.

D. System error→ Not how Workday handles eligibility changes.

The allowance plan has adefault = $100 USD, plusprofiles for Toronto, Paris, Sydney.

Dublin (Ireland) does not have a profile yet, so Workday defaults to theplan default value.

Since the default is$100 USD, that is the value assigned at hire.

Why not the others?

A. €0 EUR→ No such rule; Workday always uses defaults when profiles are missing.

C. €80 EUR→ That’s Paris profile, not Dublin.

D. $0 USD→ Incorrect because the plan default is not zero but $100.

Acompensation elementin Workday is the foundational link between acompensation plan(e.g., salary, bonus, allowance) andpayroll processing.

When you assign a compensation plan (like a car allowance, bonus, or salary plan), Workday requires acompensation elementthat directly maps to apayroll earning code.

This ensures that the pay component flows into payroll correctly, appears on pay slips, and is taxable/deductible as designed.

Why not the others?

B. Requisition compensation– Job requisitions use compensation packages for recruiting, but elements are not tied to requisitions.

C. Eligibility rules– Eligibility determineswhocan receive the plan, not the element itself.

D. Benefit deductions– Those are handled bybenefit deduction elements, not compensation elements.

In Workday, when you set anActual End Dateon a compensation plan, the plan remains activethrough that date.

Workday automaticallyremoves the plan the day afterthe entered actual end date.

Example: If Actual End Date = March 31, the plan is removed effectiveApril 1.

Why not the others?

B. Last day of the month +1→ Too restrictive; not always tied to month-end.

C. On the actual end date→ Wrong; the plan is validthroughthe end date.

D. Last day of the pay period +1→ Not relevant; tied to end date, not pay periods.

Out of Order Compensation Changes Reportidentifies employees with compensation changes enteredwith earlier effective dates than existing future-dated changes.

This prevents conflicts in comp history and ensures payroll/comp processing accuracy.

Why not the others?

A. Employee Compensation Audit→ Audits eligibility and assignment mismatches, not date conflicts.

B. Future Payment Audit→ Focuses on scheduled payments, not comp changes.

D. Compensation Changes→ General report, doesn’t flag sequencing issues.