--- title: "Cycle Outcomes dashboard" description: "Introducing Cycle Outcomes, the powerful new addition to Cycle Insights in Compensation Planning that delivers real-time visibility into your compensation cycle results." canonical_url: "https://support.pave.com/articles/cycle-outcomes-dashboard-Pbxr8Jtbai" md_url: "https://support.pave.com/articles/cycle-outcomes-dashboard-Pbxr8Jtbai.md" --- # Cycle Outcomes dashboard Introducing Cycle Outcomes, the powerful new addition to Cycle Insights in Compensation Planning that delivers real-time visibility into your compensation cycle results. ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=2eaf4234-540f-4018-baaa-99ca9b62e538 "left-50 =430x602") ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=9b917e31-28a2-425e-97b3-9ab6c72b0d94 "right-50 =477x482")  ### Key Highlights * **Data-driven decisions without the spreadsheet headaches:** Say goodbye to mid-cycle pivot tables! Cycle Outcomes delivers intuitive visualizations that instantly answer your most pressing questions about performance ratings, promotions, program-specific increses, and the relationship between performance and compensation. * **Real-time strategic intelligence:** Monitor your cycle's evolution with live updates based on planner inputs, allowing you to identify trends, spot anomalies, and make proactive adjustments before your cycle concludes. * **Precision analysis with effortless filtering:** Drill down into any dimension or compensation program with our flexible filtering system, enabling targeted analysis of specific employee segments, departments, or compensation programs with just a few clicks. ## Getting started * **Availability:** Cycle Outcomes is included with Cycle Insights for all Compensation Planning customers at no additional cost. * **Strategic access controls:** Provide Cycle Outcomes access to Cycle Admins for organization-wide visibility, or to HRBPs and department leaders for targeted insights into their specific orgs. * **Simple activation:** Enable the Cycle Dashboard permission for any role requiring access to the complete Cycle Insights suite, which includes Cycle Progress, Budgets, and the new Cycle Outcomes dashboards. :::tip **Reminder:** Rank each performance rating in the correct order under **Column configs > Performance column** in order for all charts to display performance groupings in the correct order. ::: ### How to access Access Cycle Insights by navigating to **View insights** at the top of your worksheet table: ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=5147b403-b2bf-4810-9811-3e0268c07134 " =1146x434") ## Key features Cycle Outcomes offers two powerful analytical perspectives: * **Performance:** Gain crystal-clear visibility into both overall metrics and proportional breakdowns with intuitive visualizations that instantly answer your critical questions: * *What is the distribution of performance ratings across my organization?* * *How many employees are advancing through promotions, both in absolute numbers and percentages?* * *What is the correlation between performance ratings and compensation adjustments?* * **Post Cycle Trends:** Uncover the strategic impact of your compensation decisions with comprehensive trend analysis that reveals: * *How effectively your compensation strategy positions high performers within their bands compared to mid and low performers* * *Potential outliers whose range positioning may not align with their performance assessment* * *Progress toward key compensation objectives, such as increasing the percentage of employees positioned appropriately within their bands* ### Performance Distribution Breaks down the number and percent representation of each performance rating within a specified cohort. **Group by:** The chart is grouped by Department by default, but can be grouped by any other employee dimension used in the cycle. ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=f1528f5e-dca6-4dde-83d1-36d68395aca6 " =1146x536") ### Average increase by performance Shows the average dollar and percent raise by performance rating. * **View by:** Choose the compensation program that you want to view in the graph * **Group by:** Add any secondary dimension to the chart’s grouping. For example, you can group by level to view average increase by performance rating, broken down by employee `level`. * **Other filters:** You can filter down to any employee segment using the filter options under **More**. You can also view *promoted* or *non-promoted* populations in isolation using the left-most filter. ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=f8550b71-b295-4fce-813b-394ac344f708 " =1002x460") ### Performance vs. Compa-Ratio Visualizes the distribution of employees by compa-ratio (or range penetration) and performance rating. A graph with diagonal shading towards to upper right corner would reflect a pay for performance program design. Compare pre-cycle and post-cycle states side-by-side to instantly measure how your compensation decisions have strengthened performance alignment across the organization. **Filters:** View promoted or non-promoted cohorts, or any other segment to refine your analysis further. ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=81099576-b429-4eac-8e41-aea3fead52eb " =1002x450") ### Total Cash Band Adherence Compare the percent of employees that are within their compensation range before and after the cycle, as well as a department-specific breakdown.  ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=e3c86cb7-9c10-4ef5-8624-8f7fef7c42fe " =1002x400") ### View Bands by \[Department\] Visualize employee distribution within each compensation range. Each employee is color-coded based on their performance rating, making it easier to pinpoint outliers.   ![](https://support.pave.com/api/attachments.redirect?id=566c05cc-60d8-4648-8e62-561068ff8554 " =1002x532")