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2593172 - Error while uploading Pay Components: Only one Pay Component can be assigned with the value of Used for Comp Planning as COMP or BOTH

Symptom

Customer is getting the error message "Only one Pay Component can be assigned with the value of Used for Comp Planning as COMP or BOTH" when updating Pay Components.

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Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite
  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

Reproducing the Issue

You are trying to add more than one pay component with "Used for Comp Planning" set as both or comp for the same employee at the same time.

Cause

There is a field "Used for Comp Planning" in Pay Components. It controls whether this Pay Component will be used by the Compensation module. Possible values are None, Comp, Varpay and Both.

When going to "manage organization, pay and job structures" we can see both pay components have the field "Used for Comp Planning" set as "both" or "comp".

The error is an expected behavior when we have defined "Used for Comp Planning" field value as "Comp" or "Both" for more than one Pay Component and you are trying to add the same Pay Components at employee level.

Basically, we cannot add 2 or more Pay Components which has flag "Used for Comp Planning=Comp/Both" to an employee.

Resolution

Update the field "Used for Comp Planning"= "None" for the Pay Component(s) and add again at employee level.

  1. Go to Manage Organization, Pay and Job structures;
  2. Select the pay component that needs to be updated and adjust "Used for Comp Planning" field.

Once you make sure that only one pay component for the employee has the field "Used for Comp Planning" set as "both" or "comp", you can try to update the employee again without issues.

Also View: Guide:Integrating Compensation with Employee Central Chapter: Guidelines When Publishing Data to Employee Central

Additional Information About Recurring Pay Components 

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Some points that apply to publishing recurring pay components:

  • For all recurring pay components, it is assumed that the recurring pay component is associated with its parent Employee Central compensation data.
  • Multiple recurring pay components can be published.
    1. Find the existing effective compInfo based on the new publishing effective date.
    2. New pay component is based on the existing compInfo, if any - under new compInfo.
    3. Either apply changes or add new pay component based on the comp-hris-field-map.
  • A recurring pay component can be published multiple times.
    • The first time a component is published, a new pay component is created under the new parent compInfo.
    • Subsequent publish will update the recurring pay component only when there is a change in the values already created. If there is no change in the pay component, those users will be skipped from publishing on successive publications.
  • Pay components with different effective dates will be stored as different compensation data. Pay components in the base (not the template) will be carried over to the next compensation data.

FAQ - Additional Information

Q) Where can I get information on this from the Guide?

A)  Guide:Integrating Compensation with Employee Central

         Chapter: Guidelines When Publishing Data to Employee Central

         Chapter: Additional Information About Recurring Pay Components 

 EC Guide:Managing Mass Changes in Employee Central - Compensation Information Imports  

     Chapter: Employee Data Import Process and Example: Importing Compensation Information and Recurring Pay Components

See Also

  • 3141692 - How to provide * Audit Logs to Cloud Support - SuccessFactors 
  • 2438940 - Pay Component is already used. Changing is not allowed.

  • 2832661 - Prerequisite set up in your SAP ERP HCM system for migration of employee with global assignments to Employee Central

  • 2413486 - Correct or Update Compensation Information record via Import in Full Purge mode
  • 2494885 - Correct or Update Pay Component Recurring or Pay Component Non Recurring Information record via Import in Full Purge or Incremental Load
  • 2764253 - Compensation Information: Error when Viewing or Inserting Compensation Info
  • 2317955 - Correct or Remove Job Information record via Import in Full Purge mode
  • 2489526 - Correct or Update Job Relationships Information record via Import in Full Purge mode
  • 2315276 - Employee Central - Data Imports FAQ
  • 2092850 - How to make changes to Employee Data on mass via Import - Employee Central
  • 2346500 - How to Enhance System Performance During Imports in Employee Central
  • 2413959 - Failed to save compensation data error when publishing to EC error displayed on the email notification for some users

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Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite all versions