As an approver, you review and approve the compensation suggestions and edits made by the reviewer or other previous approvers. Learn how to access a compensation review, review pay recommendations, make updates, and submit approvals below.

Access a comp review

The Workleap Compensation notification you received summarizes which teams require your approval. Click Approve Team in the email to go to the compensation review.

To navigate to a comp review in Workleap Compensation:

Log in to Workleap Compensation.
Select Comp Reviews from the left-hand menu.
Select View next to the comp review cycle you want to open.
Click on a team with To Approve status.
1. You may have more than one team to approve.

Note: You must approve teams with Upcoming status once the reviewer or approvers before you finish their review.

Review and approve a team’s compensation changes

When you access a comp review as an approver, the initial reviewer has already filled out compensation suggestions on the form. Your job is to review the suggestions, make any desired changes, and then approve the compensation adjustments.

As an approver, you can:

View your assigned team’s compensation recommendations.
View notes from the initial reviewer or approvers before you.
Write notes to explain your decisions.
Adjust compensation values suggested by the initial reviewer or approvers before you.
Edit compensation values related to promotions.
Remove suggested promotions.
View the team's budget and spend.
Show or hide specific columns as needed.
Apply filters.

Tip: If your Executive added guidelines, they show above the related pay field. Guidelines are a target or an acceptable range for an employee pay increase. You can suggest increases outside of the guideline, but it is flagged as an exception and might exceed the team's budget.

Columns

Comp review data is broken up into many different columns. When you open a team, some columns are expanded by default.

To adjust which columns show on the comp review form, select the columns icon in the upper right-hand corner of the employee list. Check the box next to any data columns you want to show, and uncheck the box next to any columns you want to collapse.

Note: Expanding and collapsing columns only affects your view of the comp review data.

Tip: The Gap to Band Minimum column shows how far below employees are from their pay band minimum pay.

Notes

Use notes to explain decisions or provide context.
Review the notes left by the reviewer or previous approvers.

Activity log

All actions are recorded in the activity log as an audit trail (next to the notes icon at the beginning of the Job Details section).
Use the activity log to better understand the pay changes suggested by the reviewer and previous approvers.

Review promotions

If an employee is marked for promotion, you can:

Click the star icon to edit or remove the promotion.
Update compensation values associated with the promotion.

View All Employees

Organizational leaders often have many direct and indirect employees to review and approve across multiple teams. The View All Employees view gives you an overview of all employees in your approval chain, regardless of their comp review status.

Click View all employees in the upper right-hand corner of the employee list to:

See employees across all teams in a single view.
Click between the tabs to see:
- Teams to review.
- Teams to approve.
- Upcoming teams (i.e., teams you must approve once their initial comp review is complete).
- Submitted teams.
- All employees.

Tip: View All Employees lets you compare similar roles across teams (e.g., all Customer Success Associates in Canada Zone 1 and Zone 2), analyze compensation consistency, and identify trends.

Finalize approvals

When you are ready to approve a team's compensation changes, select Approve in the upper right-hand corner of the form and confirm.

Once approved:

The team's status changes to Submitted.
- If you were the final approver in the chain, the status becomes Approved.

Important: Once you have approved a team, you can no longer edit the team's comp review. Make sure you have reviewed all adjustments before approving.