Introducing Cycle Outcomes, the powerful new addition to Cycle Insights in Compensation Planning that delivers real-time visibility into your compensation cycle results. This dynamic dashboard empowers you to track critical compensation metrics as they evolve, revealing the true impact of your cycle on compensation patterns across your entire organization.

Introducing Cycle Outcomes, the powerful new addition to Cycle Insights in Compensation Planning that delivers real-time visibility into your compensation cycle results. This dynamic dashboard empowers you to track critical compensation metrics as they evolve, revealing the true impact of your cycle on compensation patterns across your entire organization.

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### 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.


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**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.

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### How to access

Access Cycle Insights by navigating to **View insights** at the top of your worksheet table:

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## 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.

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### 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.
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### 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.

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### 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. 

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### 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.

 

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Questions? Reach out to your Technical Account Manager or our Support Team to learn more!

Cycle Outcomes

Comp Planner Configurations Overview

Compensation Planner 101

Getting Started - Compensation Planner

Compensation Planner FAQs

Cycle Specific Permissions

Employee Eligibility

Step 1: Initial Cycle Setup

First-Class Columns

Using Handlebars Formula for Calculated Columns

Columns

Step 2: Column Configuration

OTE Planning Configuration Guide

What is OTE Planning?

Step 3: OTE Planning

Am I able to update or change approval chains during a cycle?

Updating Approval Chains

Compensation Cycle Data Upload

Step 4: Data Management

How can I configure market adjustment recommendations for employees?

How can I configure variable raise recommendations for employees?

Recommendation Logic

What are Recommendations?

Step 5: Recommendation Logic

Budgets

Budget Dashboard

Top Down Budgets: In-app Configurations

Step 6: Budget Confirmation

Planning Windows Setup Guide

Planning Windows Overview

Monthly & Hourly Pay

Employee Compensation History Popout

UI Toggles

Filtering & Sorting

Approval Statuses

Step 7: Planner Experience

Smart Flags

Compensation Outliers

Manager Compression Flag

Vesting Drop Flag

Step 8: Controls & Governance

Peers Overview

Value Rounding in Compensation Planning

In App Reward Letter Editor

Reward Letters

Peers Configuration Guide

Cycle Progress Dashboard Overview

Other Cycle Actions

 Compensation Planner

Market Data Connections Set up

Market Data Connections Overview

Integrations 101

Integrations

Adding Columns

Team View Overview

Team View Column Configuration

Team View Customizations

Re-ordering Columns

Deleting Columns

Team View Settings

Team View

Logging In

Custom Role Creation Guide

Creating an Account

How to add a colleague to Pave’s Market Data Platform

Market Data Role Management

Why does it matter to get levels and role families right?

SSO Configuration Guide

Account Setup

Contact Us

How much does Pave Market Data access cost?

How does Pave Work?

Intro to Pave

Pave 101

Compensation Philosophy

Total Compensation

Compensation 101

The Stock Option Lifecycle

ISO Tax Implications

The Basics of Stock Options

The Confusing AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax)

ISO Strategies

An Overview of How Stock Options Work

Equity 101

Account Creation Troubleshooting and FAQs

How to Benchmark Executive Compensation

Login Troubleshooting and FAQ

How does company size affect which department, job family and job level I should choose?

How does Pave determine a role level and role family?

What are Job Levels, Departments and Job Families? Why are they important?

Troubleshooting Rippling Zero Records Error

What Market Data Connections does Pave currently support?

FAQs

Getting Started

Survey aging

Edit and apply benchmarks

Set weights and logic

Map data sources to jobs

Supported survey providers

Manage Pave data sources

Manage survey data sources

Benchmarks overview

Step 2: Benchmarking

Band Sets

Pay Types: Calculated TDC, Annual Equity, and Refresh Equity

Manually Create New Band Sets

Bands Set Audit Log

How to duplicate band sets

Managing & Reordering Calculated Columns

Calculated Columns

Unmatched Employees

Upload/Download Bands

View changes

Editing Bands

Employee Distribution in Bands

Pay Zone Manager

Job Architecture 101

Grades

Setting up Company Job Architecture

Company Job Architecture

Step 1: Build Foundation

Generate Bands from Market Data

Bulk & Manually Associate Market Data to Bands

Step 3: Update Ranges

Relative Permissions

Generate Bands for New Jobs in Your Job Architecture

Compare Bands

Advanced Filters

Ongoing Management & Analysis

Market Pricing

Option Driver Deprecation FAQs

Option Driver

Option Impact Deprecation FAQs

Option Impact

Option Impact & Option Driver

Executive Reporting Dashboard

Cycle Monitoring and Reporting

Building Market-Based Compensation Bands

Employee Groups

Cycle Configuration

How does Recommendation Logic work?

Am I able to change another user’s permissions or login credentials while impersonating?

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