[Q13-Q33] Download Workday Workday-Pro-Compensation Sample Questions [Mar-2026]

Q13. You need to create a car allowance plan. In order for your compensation plan to be paid by payroll, you determine you need to create a compensation element. What task do you use to set up the compensation element?

Q14. A manager is proposing compensation for an employee and is only able to assign the car allowance. When the compensation partner approves the compensation change, they are able to assign any allowance plan configured in the tenant, even if the employee is not eligible for those plans.
What security domain allows the compensation partner to assign allowance plans that the employee is not eligible for?

Q15. An employee is eligible for these compensation bases:
* International Compensation (ranking 2)
* Management Compensation (ranking 1)
* Sales Compensation (ranking 3)
What compensation basis will display as the employee’s primary compensation basis?

Q16. What report allows you to view the compensation components that the worker is assigned and eligible for, unassigned and eligible for, and assigned and ineligible for?

Q17. You are creating a compensation package.
What can you add to the compensation package?

Q18. You enter a date in the Actual End Date field of a compensation plan.
When will Workday remove the plan from the employee’s record?

Q19. A customer has several one-time payment plans within a tenant. They want to ensure that during a payment event a single one-time payment is submitted.
How should this be configured?

Q20. You have a seniority dynamic calculated plan to increase the amount of the plan every three years of an employee’s employment. An employee reaches their sixth anniversary. What do you need to do to make sure this employee’s plan updates with the new amount?

Q21. An employee is currently in the process of being transferred to a new location via the change job business process. Prior to this transfer they were intentionally assigned an allowance plan that has no eligibility criteria, and should continue to hold this plan assignment after the transfer is complete. The compensation partner is responsible for ensuring this plan assignment remains unchanged during this business process.
What should the compensation partner do?

Q22. You must make a change to an employee’s salary without changing other worker details.
What task will you use to make the ad hoc change?

Q23. What report can you use to view employees who get a compensation change at an earlier effective date than an existing compensation change with a subsequent date, including future effective dated changes?

Q24. Refer to the following scenario to answer the question below.
An employee who works in Mexico City has a grade profile assigned to them with the following setup:
* Grade: 7
* Base Pay Elements: Base Pay, 13th Month
* Eligibility Rules: Location – Mexico City
* Currency: MXN
* Frequency: Annual
Total Base Pay
* Minimum: 700,000 MXN (40,961 USD)
* Maximum: 1,800,000 MXN (105,328 USD)
* Midpoint: 1,250,000 MXN (73,145 USD)
You need to include a family allowance in Mexico employees’ total base pay. How will you achieve this?

Q25. What is the primary purpose of assigning a Compensation Grade to a Job Profile?

Q26. A mobile allowance plan has an amount of $150 per month. The new amount will be $200 for those employees using the plan. Employees using an override amount will keep their current difference.
How will you update the plan target and maintain current differences?

Q27. A customer configured a step-based grade with a progression sequence that uses eligibility rules. The design will progress an employee if the employee does not have a poor performance rating.
Performance is measured from 1 – 5, with selection list 1 being poor performance, and selection list 5 being outstanding performance.
The progression sequence is as follows:
* Step 1 is $25 Hourly
* Step 2 is $30 Hourly
* Step 3 is $35 Hourly
What should the conditional logic be?

Q28. What is the purpose of the compensation element?

Q29. What report lists all compensation components using any eligibility rule?

Q30. Refer to the following scenario to answer the question below.
A company with salaried and hourly employees has headquarters in London with additional offices in New York and Milan. How do you configure pay ranges for the Software Engineer job profile in each location?

Q31. An employee is transferring from one supervisory organization to another and they are subject to compensation change.
What compensation business process will the Change Job transaction trigger?

Q32. You want to award multiple one-time payments for an employee with different one-time payment plans and different scheduled payment dates while sharing the same reason and effective date.
What will you configure to allow this?

Q33. Refer to the following scenario to answer the question below.
A company has several configurable compensation bases established in their system:
* Total Cost (India): Qualifies Indian employees and includes all salary plans, period salary plans, allowance plans, bonus plans, and retirement savings plans; only 50% of their total compensation can be used toward their salary plan.
* Total Compensation Non-Sales: Qualifies all full-time employees not in sales and includes all salary plans, allowance plans, bonus plans, and calculated plans.
* Total Compensation Sales: Qualifies all full-time sales employees and includes all salary plans, allowance plans, and commission plans.
* Total Pay (Mexico): Qualifies Mexican employees and includes all salary plans, period salary plans, and allowance plans.
* Salary and Seniority: Qualifies all employees and includes all salary plans and the specific seniority calculated plan.
The configurable compensation bases have the following ranking:
* 10 Total Cost (India)
* 20 Total Compensation Non Sales
* 30 Total Compensation Sales
* 40 Total Pay (Mexico)
* Salary and Seniority is unranked
You must ensure Indian employees keep their salary plans at 50% of their total amount. What should you configure on the Total Cost (India) Compensation Basis?